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hun·dred (hun′drəd; often, -dərd)

noun

  1. the cardinal number next above ninety-nine; ten times ten; 100; C
  2. a former division of an English county: orig., probably, 100 hides of land
  3. a similar division in the early U.S., now only in Delaware

Etymology: ME < OE, akin to OS hunderod, ON hundrath < PGmc base *hund-, 100 (< IE base *kṃto- > Gr hekaton, L centum: see cent, satem) + *rath-, to count (> Goth -rathjan) < IE base *rē-: see reason

adjective

ten times ten

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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