hundred

1. The cardinal number equal to 10 × 10 or 10².
2. The number in the third position left of the decimal point in an Arabic numeral.
3. A one-hundred-dollar bill.
4. hundreds The numbers between 100 and 999: an attendance figure estimated in the hundreds.
5. An administrative division of some counties in England and the United States.

[Middle English, from Old English.]

An Anglo-Saxon term for a portion of a shire or county, perhaps indicating an area of 100 hides.

A political subdivision in old England.

Under the Saxons, each shire or county in England was divided into a number of hundreds, which were made up of ten tithings each. The tithings were groups of ten families of freeholders. The hundred was governed by a high constable and had its own local court called the Hundred Court. The most remarkable feature of the hundred was the collective responsibility of all the inhabitants for the crimes or defaults of any individual member.

Today in English, a hundred is always taken to be equal to 100. However, before the 18th century, it could mean other values, depending on the objects being counted. Sometimes the value of 100 was referred to as a small hundred and the larger value of 120 was referred to as a long hundred or great hundred. This larger value originated with the Teutonic tribes that invaded England after the Romans departed.

Until 1851, a Hundred was an administrative divisor used to indicate an area of a county which contained one hundred families [1] See Hundred (division).

In the study of Indo-European languages, the Centum-Satem isogloss refers to the earliest form of the word "hundred" in a language as a rough marker of the language's place in the Indo-European language family. The words in the various languages are believed to share a deep origin; the "Centum-Satem" distinction refers to the language's treatment of what was originally the initial velar consonant in the word.

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Dansk (Danish)
num. - hundrede
n. - hundrede

idioms:

• hundred per cent    hundrede procent
• hundreds of    hundreder, hundredvis

Nederlands (Dutch)
honderd, honderdtal

Français (French)
n. - centaine, cent
adj. - cent, centaine

idioms:

• hundred per cent    à cent pour cent
• hundreds of    des centaines de

Deutsch (German)
n. - Hundert, Hunderter
adj. - hundert

idioms:

• hundred per cent    hundertprozentig
• hundreds of    Hunderte von

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - εκατό

idioms:

• hundred per cent    εκατό τοις εκατό
• hundreds of    εκατοντάδες

Italiano (Italian)
centinaio, cento

idioms:

• a/one hundred per cent    cento per cento
• hundreds of    centinaia di

Português (Portuguese)
n. - cento (m), cem (m), centena (f)
num. - 100
pron. - cem, cento

idioms:

• a/one hundred per cent    cem por cento
• hundreds of    centenas (f pl) de

Русский (Russian)
сто, сотня

idioms:

• a/one hundred per cent    сто процентов
• hundreds of    сотни чего-либо

Español (Spanish)
n. - ciento, centenar, centena, cien
adj. - ciento, centenar, centena, cien

idioms:

• hundred per cent    totalmente, cien por ciento
• hundreds of    cientos de

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hundra, hundratal, hundrade, härad

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
百, 百个, 百个东西

idioms:

• hundred per cent    百分之百的, 完全的, 纯粹的
• hundreds of    数以百计的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
num. - 百, 百個
n. - 百, 百個東西

idioms:

• hundred per cent    百分之百的, 完全的, 純粹的
• hundreds of    數以百計的

한국어 (Korean)
num. - 100(개)
n. - 다수, 촌락

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 100の数字, 100個, 100ドル, 100ポンド, 何百
adj. - 百に一つの, 100の, 百歳で, 多数の

idioms:

• a/one hundred per cent    完全に
• hundreds of    幾百もの

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مئه, ورقه المئه دولار‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מאה, מאה דברים, מספר גדול (מדוברת), תת-מחוז (בריטניה)‬

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