hundred

See also: The Hundred

Translingual

Hundred is used only for a final double zero

Alternative forms

• Hundred, HUNDRED

Etymology

Borrowed from English hundred.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhandrɛd/

Noun

hundred

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for 00.

Usage notes

Used only for whole hundreds (a final 00 in a number), and then only for distances (including altitudes). Thus 10,900 m is one zero thousand nine hundred meter, but 10,946 m is one zero thousand nine four six meter and 200° is two zero zero degree.

ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes

code	Alfa	Bravo	Charlie	Delta	Echo	Foxtrot	Golf	Hotel	India	Juliett	Kilo	Lima	Mike
	November	Oscar	Papa	Quebec	Romeo	Sierra	Tango	Uniform	Victor	Whiskey	Xray	Yankee	Zulu
	zero	one	two	three (tree)	four (fower)	five (fife)	six	seven	eight	nine (niner)	hundred	thousand	decimal

English

English numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	100	101  → [a], [b], [c], [d]	200  →
		10
Cardinal: hundred     Ordinal: hundredth     Multiplier: hundredfold     Latinate multiplier: centuple     Germanic collective: hundred     Collective of n parts: centuplet     Metric collective prefix: hecto-     Metric fractional prefix: centi-     Elemental: centuplet     Number of years: century, centennium

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 100 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: C
• ISO prefix: hecto-
• Exponential notation: 10²

Etymology

From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hŭnʹdrəd, hŭnʹdrĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈhʌndɹəd/, /ˈhʌndɹɪd/
• (mostly nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌndɚd/, /ˈhʌnd͡ʒɚd/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Hyphenation: hun‧dred

Numeral

hundred (plural hundreds)

1. A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.

   hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of faces

   a hundred, one hundred

   nineteen hundred, one thousand nine hundred

2. (24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
   • 2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:

     “Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I’ll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”

Usage notes

Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine, the word hundred is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner or other modifier to function as a numeral.

• a hundred women / one hundred women / the hundred women
• compare a dozen women / one dozen women / the dozen women
• compare ten women / the ten women

Hundred can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take -s when preceded by a determiner.

• two hundred women / some hundred women
• hundreds of women

In telling military time, "hundred" is typically only used for exact hours, e.g. 09:00 is "oh nine hundred" and 21:00 is "twenty-one hundred", while 03:30 is "oh three thirty". Sometimes, nonstandardly (e.g. in fiction by authors not entirely familiar with military time-telling), 03:30 may be read as "oh three hundred thirty".

Synonyms

• (numerical): cent (obsolete, except in per cent), one hundred

Derived terms

• 0-dark-hundred
• a hundred and ten percent
• a hundred percent
• bat five hundred
• be a hundred years too early
• give a hundred percent
• great hundred
• hundredaire
• hundredal
• hundredary
• hundred-dollar hamburger
• hundreder
• hundredfold
• hundred-handed
• hundredman
• hundredpeny
• hundreds and thousands
• hundredsomething
• hundred-something
• hundredth
• hundredthly
• hundred thousand
• hundred-thousandaire
• hundred-thousandth
• hundred twenty-eighth note
• hundredweight
• hundred-yard stare
• hundred-year-old
• hundred-year storm
• Hundred Years' War
• keep it one hundred
• long hundred
• oh dark hundred
• one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
• one hundred percent
• one hundred percent American
• one-hundred-year storm
• short hundred
• The Hundred
• yearhundred
• zero hundred

 

Descendants

• → Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri

Translations

cardinal number 100

• Abkhaz: шәкы (ŝʷkʼə)
• Adangme: lafa
• Adyghe: шъэ (ŝɛ)
• Afar: bool
• Afrikaans: honderd (af), eenhonderd
• Aghwan: 𐔱𐔰𐔹 (bać̣), 𐕇𐕒𐕍𐕈 (x̣oq̇å)
• Aklanon: gatos
• Albanian: qind (sq)
• Aleut: sisax̂
• Amharic: መቶ (mäto)
• Arabic: مائة f (miʔa), مِئَة f (miʔa), ١٠٠ (100)

  Egyptian Arabic: مية (miyya), ميت (mīt) (before a noun)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: מאא c (m’ā’), מאתא f (ma’tā’)

  Syriac: ܡܐܐ c (m’ā’), ܡܐܬܐ f (ma’tā’)

• Archi: баш (baš)
• Armenian: հարյուր (hy) (haryur)
• Aromanian: sutã
• Assamese: শ (xo)
• Asturian: cien (ast)
• Avar: нусго (nusgo)
• Avestan: 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨 (satəm)
• Aymara: pataka
• Azerbaijani: yüz (az)
• Bahnar: hrĕng
• Banjarese: ratus
• Bashkir: йөҙ (yöź)
• Basque: ehun (eu)
• Belarusian: сто (be) (sto)
• Bengali: শত (bn) (śot), একশ (bn) (ekoś)
• Bikol Central: gatos (bcl)
• Breton: kant (br)
• Brunei Malay: ratus
• Buginese: ratu
• Bulgarian: сто (sto)
• Burmese: ရာ (my) (ra), တစ်ရာ (tacra)
• Buryat: зуун (zuun)
• Carpathian Rusyn: сто (sto)
• Catalan: cent (ca) m or f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵎⵉⴹⵉ (timiḍi)
• Central Tarahumara: biré ciento
• Chamicuro: pachak
• Chechen: бӏе (bˀe)
• Cherokee: ᏍᎪᏗᏔᏭᏈ (sgoditawuqui), ᏍᎪᎯᏥᏆ (sgohitsiqua)
• Cheyenne: noˀka mȧhtóhtȯhnóˀe
• Chichewa: zana, handiredi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 百 (yue) (baak³)

  Dungan: бый (bɨy)

  Hokkien: 百 (zh-min-nan) (pah / pek)

  Mandarin: 百 (zh) (bǎi)

  Teochew: 百 (bêh⁴)

• Chinook Jargon: tak'ummunaq
• Choctaw: tahlepa ačǎfa
• Chuukese: ipuku, -puku
• Chuvash: ҫӗр (śĕr)
• Classical Nahuatl: mācuīlpōhualli
• Coptic: ϣⲉ (še)
• Cornish: kans
• Corsican: centu
• Creek: cokpe
• Crimean Tatar: yüz
• Czech: sto (cs)
• Dalmatian: ciant
• Danish: hundred (da), hundrede (da)
• Dargwa: даршал (daršal)
• Dena'ina: ghedasdlin
• Dhivehi: ސަތޭކަ (satēka)
• Drung: hya
• Dutch: honderd (nl) f
• Dzongkha: བརྒྱ (brgya)
• Egyptian: (št)
• Elfdalian: undrað
• Esperanto: cent (eo)
• Estonian: sada (et)
• Even: няма (ņama)
• Evenki: нямади (ņamaʒi)
• Farefare: kɔbga
• Faroese: hundrað
• Fijian: drau (fj)
• Finnish: sata (fi)
• French: cent (fr) m
• Friulian: cent
• Galician: cen (gl), (only in compounds) cento (gl)
• Garifuna: san
• Ge'ez: ምእት (mǝ'ǝt)
• Georgian: ასი (ka) (asi), ხუთოცი (xutoci)
• German: hundert (de), einhundert (de), Hundert (de)
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳 (hund), 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳 (taihuntaihund)
• Greek: εκατό (el) (ekató), εκατόν (el) (ekatón)

  Ancient: ἑκατόν (hekatón), ρ΄ (numeral)

• Greenlandic: hundredi
• Guaraní: sa
• Gujarati: સો (gu) (so), ૧૦૦ (100)
• Haitian Creole: san
• Hausa: ɗari
• Hawaiian: haneli
• Hebrew: מֵאָה (he) (me'á)
• Hiligaynon: gatus
• Hindi: सौ (hi) (sau), १०० (hi) (100), सैकड़ा (hi) (saikṛā)
• Hungarian: száz (hu)
• Ibanag: magatut
• Icelandic: hundrað (is), eitt hundrað
• Ido: cent (io)
• Indonesian: seratus (id) (one hundred), ratus (id) (hundred in general)
• Ingrian: sata
• Ingush: бӏаь (bˀä)
• Interlingua: cento
• Irish: céad (ga)
• Isan: ร้อย, ฮ้อย
• Isnag: xatut
• Istriot: sento
• Italian: cento (it) m
• Japanese: 百 (ja) (ひゃく, hyakú, もも, momo)
• Javanese: satus (jv)
• Jingpho: läca
• Kabuverdianu: sen
• Kalmyk: зун (zun)
• Kannada: ನೂರಾರು (kn) (nūrāru), ೧೦೦ (100)
• Karachay-Balkar: джюз (cüz)
• Karakalpak: júz
• Kashubian: sto
• Kazakh: жүз (kk) (jüz)
• Khakas: чӱс (çüs)
• Khmer: មួយរយ (muəy rɔɔy), ១០០ (100)
• Khoekhoe: kaidisi
• Klallam: náč̕əwəč
• Komi-Permyak: сё (śo)
• Korean: 백(百) (ko) (baek)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سەد (ckb) (sed)

  Northern Kurdish: sed (ku)

• Kyrgyz: жүз (ky) (jüz)
• Lake Miwok: ṣijénto, ṣénto
• Lakota: opáwiŋǧe
• Lao: ຮ້ອຍ (hǭi), ປາກ (lo) (pāk), ໑໐໐ (100)
• Latgalian: symts
• Latin: centum (la)
• Latvian: simts (lv)
• Lezgi: виш (viš)
• Ligurian: çénto
• Lithuanian: šimtas (lt), šim̃tas (lt) (obsolete)
• Lombard: cent
• Louisiana Creole French: sen
• Low German: hunnert, hunnerd
• Lü: ᦣᦾᧉ (hoay²), ᦔᦱᧅ (ṗaak)
• Luxembourgish: honnert (lb)
• Macedonian: сто (mk) (sto)
• Makasar: bilang
• Malagasy: zato (mg)
• Malay: ratus (ms)
• Malayalam: നൂറ് (ml) (nūṟŭ)
• Maltese: mija
• Manchu: ᡨᠠᠩᡤᡡ (tanggū)
• Mansaka: gatos
• Manx: keead
• Maore Comorian: mia
• Maori: rau (mi), hokorima
• Maranao: gatos
• Marathi: शंभर (śambhar)
• Mayo: mamni tacá
• Mi'kmaq: gasgʼptnnaqan
• Middle Breton: kant
• Middle English: hundred
• Middle Welsh: cant
• Mirandese: cien, ciento
• Mòcheno: hundert
• Mohawk: tewenˀniawe
• Mon: ကၠံ
• Mongolian:

  Classical Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭᠤᠨ (ǰaɣun)

  Cyrillic: зуу (mn) (zuu)

  Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭᠤ (ǰaɣu)

• Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⵉⵎⵉⴹⵉ f (timiḍi)
• Muong: tlăm, mộch tlăm
• Nanai: танго (taŋo)
• Nauruan: aibu (na)
• Navajo: neeznádiin, tʼááłáʼídi neeznádiin
• Nepali: सय (saya)
• Norman: chent (Jersey)
• North Frisian: hunert
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} сат (sat)
• Northern Sami: čuođi
• Norwegian: hundre (no)
• Nottoway-Meherrin: kaharsthree
• Occitan: cent (oc)
• Odia: ଶହ (or) (śaha)
• Ojibwe: ingodwaak, ingodwaak
• Old Church Slavonic: съто (sŭto)
• Old English: hundtēontiġ, hund (ang), hundred
• Old French: cent
• Old Frisian: hundred
• Old High German: hunt
• Old Irish: cét
• Old Javanese: sătus
• Old Norse: hundrað n
• Old Prussian: sīmtan
• Old Saxon: hunderod
• Old Welsh: cant
• Orok: таӈгу (taŋgu)
• Oromo: dhiba
• Ossetian: сӕдӕ (sædæ)
• Ottawa: godwak
• Ottoman Turkish: یوز (yüz)
• Pacoh: culám
• Pannonian Rusyn: сто (sto)
• Papiamentu: shen
• Pashto: سل (ps) (sël)
• Pennsylvania German: hunnert
• Persian: صَد (fa) (sad)
• Piedmontese: sent
• Pijin: handre
• Polish: sto (pl)
• Portuguese: cem (pt), (only in compounds) cento (pt)
• Punjabi: ਸੌ (pa) (sau)
• Quechua: pachak, pacak
• Rapa Nui: ho'e hanere, rau, e-tahi te rau
• Romagnol: zent
• Romani: śel

  Kalo Finnish Romani: ȟeel

• Romanian: sută (ro) f
• Romansch: tschient, tschien, tschent
• Russian: сто (ru) (sto), со́тня (ru) f (sótnja)
• Saho: bool, bool
• Samoan: lau, selau
• Samogitian: šėmts
• Sanskrit: शत (sa) (śata), शततमः (sa) (śatatamaḥ)
• Santali: ᱥᱳ (so), ᱥᱟᱭ (say)
• Sardinian: centu, chentu
• Saterland Frisian: hunnert
• Scottish Gaelic: ceud m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сто, стотина f

  Roman: sto (sh), stotina (sh) f

• Shan: ပၢၵ်ႇ (shn) (pàak), လွႆႉ (lâ̰ui)
• Sherpa: ཟ་ཡི (za yi)
• Shor: чӱс (çüs)
• Shoshone: biasēmote
• Sicilian: centu (scn)
• Sidamo: xibbe
• Sindhi: سو
• Sinhalese: සියය (si) (siyaya)
• Slovak: sto (sk)
• Slovene: stó (sl)
• Somali: boqol
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sto

  Upper Sorbian: sto

• Southern Altai: јӱс (ǰüs)
• Spanish: cien (es) m or f, ciento (es) m
• Swahili: mia (sw)
• Swedish: hundra (sv)
• Tabasaran: варж (varž)
• Tagalog: daan (tl)
• Tahitian: hoʻinaa
• Tajik: сад (tg) (sad)
• Talysh: sa
• Tamil: நூறு (ta) (nūṟu)
• Taos: tę̋tę̌, si̋eną
• Tarantino: cinde
• Tat: sad
• Tatar: йөз (tt) (yöz)
• Tausug: gatus, hanggatus
• Tedim Chin: za
• Telugu: వంద (te) (vanda), నూరు (te) (nūru)
• Tetum: atus
• Thai: หนึ่งร้อย (th), ร้อย (th) (rɔ́ɔi)
• Tibetan: བརྒྱ་ (brgya)
• Tigrinya: ሚእቲ (ti) (miʾti)
• Tocharian A: känt
• Tocharian B: kante
• Tok Pisin: handet
• Tongan: teau
• Tonkawa: seːnto
• Turkish: yüz (tr)
• Turkmen: ýüz (tk)
• Tutelo: okeni
• Udmurt: сю (śu)
• Ukrainian: сто (uk) (sto)
• Unami: kwëtapxki
• Urdu: سو (sau)
• Uyghur: يۈز (yüz)
• Uzbek: yuz (uz)
• Venetan: sento (vec), zsento, çento
• Vietnamese: một trăm, trăm (vi)
• Vilamovian: hundyt
• Volapük: tum (vo)
• Votic: sata
• Wakhi: sad
• Welsh: cant (cy)
• West Frisian: hûndert (fy)
• West Makian: atus
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: gatus
• White Hmong: pua, puas
• Wolof: téeméer (wo)
• Yagnobi: сад (sad)
• Yakut: сүүс (süüs)
• Yiddish: הונדערט (yi) (hundert)
• Yup'ik: yuinaat talliman, talliman ipiaq, kavluut, negavaq
• Zazaki: se (diq)
• Zhuang: baek, it baek
• Zou: za
• Zulu: ikhulu class 5/6, -yikhulu

Noun

hundred (plural hundreds)

1. A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
2. (historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
3. (by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
4. (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

   He made a hundred in the historic match.

Synonyms

• (collection of 100 things): centuplet; centenary (obsolete)
• (US hundred-dollar bill): Franklin, yard, c-note
• (administrative division): barony (Ireland), see also riding, wapentake, rape, commote (Wales)
• (cricket: hundred runs): century

Hypernyms

• (administrative division): See county and tithing

Hyponyms

• (administrative division): See carucate (¹⁄₁₀₀ hundred & for smaller divisions)

Derived terms

• Chafford Hundred
• daddy hundred
• hundredal
• Hundred End

Translations

hundred-dollar (-euro, etc.) bill

• Bulgarian: стотачка f (stotačka)
• Finnish: satanen (fi), satku (fi), huntti (fi), saturainen (fi), satalappunen (fi)
• German: (hundred-any-currency bill) Hunderter (de) m
• Greek: κατοστάρικο (el) n (katostáriko)
• Japanese: 100ドル札 (hyakudorusatsu)
• Macedonian: стотка (stotka)
• Navajo: tʼááłáʼídi neeznádiin béeso
• Polish: setka (pl) f, stówka (pl) f, stówa (pl) f
• Romanian: bancnotă de o sută f
• Russian: со́тня (ru) f (sótnja), со́тенная (ru) f (sótennaja), сторублёвка (ru) f (storubljóvka), стодолларо́вка f (stodollaróvka)
• Swedish: hundralapp (sv) c, hundring (sv) c

historical: administrative division

• Bulgarian: околия (bg) f (okolija)
• Danish: herred n
• Estonian: kihelkond
• Finnish: kihlakunta (fi)
• Icelandic: hérað n
• Macedonian: стотка f (stotka)
• Middle English: hundred
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: herred n

  Nynorsk: herad n

• Russian: со́тня (ru) f (sótnja)
• Swedish: härad (sv) n

cricket: hundred runs

• Finnish: satanen (fi)
• Telugu: శతకం (te) (śatakaṁ)

See also

• wapentake

Anagrams

• hunderd

Danish

Alternative forms

• hundrede (cardinal number)
• hundrede (noun)

Etymology

From Old Norse hundrað (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hunrəd/, [ˈhunɐð]

Numeral

hundred

1. hundred

Descendants

• → Greenlandic: hundredi

Noun

hundred n (plural indefinite hundreder or hundred, plural definite hundrederne)

1. a unit of about one hundred

Middle English

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

←  10	←  90	100	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: hundred     Ordinal: hundred     Multiplier: hundredfold

Etymology 1

From Old English hundred, from Proto-West Germanic *hundarad, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”); some forms are remodelled on Old Norse hundrað.

Alternative forms

• hondred, houndred, houndreth, hundered, hundereth, hunderyth, hundreþ, hundret, hundreth, hundrid, hundrit, hundrythe, hwndreth
• honderd, hundurd

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhundrɛd/, /ˈhundrɛθ/, /ˈhundərd/

Numeral

hundred

2. A hundred; 100.
   • c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)‎^[4], folio 34, recto, lines 34-35; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:

     [Þ]au pilatuſ him come wid ten hu[n]dꝛed cniſteſ. / yet ic wolde louerd foꝛ þi loue fiſte.

     "If Pilate himself came with ten hundred knights, / Lord, I would still fight for your sake."

3. A large number; a zillion.

Usage notes

Much like modern English hundred, hundred needs a determiner preceding it to function as a number.

Derived terms

• hundredfold

Descendants

• English: hundred
  • → Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri
• Scots: hunder, hunner
• Yola: hindreth, hundreth, hundereth, hunderth, hunnert

References

• “hundred, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

hundred (plural hundredes)

1. A hundredweight.
3. A hundred (administrative division)
4. The assembly or court of such a division.

Derived terms

• hundredpeny

Descendants

• English: hundred

References

• “hundred, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “hundred, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

←  10	←  90	100	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: hundred     Ordinal: hundred     Multiplier: hundredfold

A combination of specialised use of the cardinal and hundred (“hundred”) +‎ -the (ordinal suffix).

Alternative forms

• hondraȝte, hondred, hondredaȝte, hundredeþe, hundret, hundreþ, hundreth, hundrid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhundrɛd/, /ˈhundrɛθ/, /ˈhundər/

Adjective

hundred

2. A hundredth.

Descendants

• English: hundredth

References

• “hundredethe, ord. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old English

Old English numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	100	101  →	200  →
		10
Cardinal: hund, hundred, hundtēontiġ     Ordinal: hundtēontigoþa     Age: hundtēontiġwintre, hundwintre, ānhundwintre     Multiplier: hundfeald, hundtēontiġfeald

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”), from *hundą + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”).

Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Old Dutch *hundert, Old High German hundert, Old Norse hundrað.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxun.dred/, [ˈhun.dred]

Numeral

hundred n

1. hundred

Declension

Declension of hundred (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	hundred	hundredu
accusative	hundred	hundredu
genitive	hundredes	hundreda
dative	hundrede	hundredum

Synonyms

• hund
• hundtēontiġ

Descendants

• Middle English: hundred
  • English: hundred
    • → Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri
  • Scots: hunder, hunner
  • Yola: hindreth, hundreth, hundereth, hunderth, hunnert