EGAVE

hundred

About 69.51 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for 00.
  2. numeral A numerical value equal to 100 (10), occurring after ninety-nine; ten times ten.
    hundreds of thousands of faces.
  3. numeral The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
  4. noun A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
  5. noun An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
  6. noun Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire A subdivision once used in parts of the United States and still in use in Delaware solely for the purpose of real estate descriptions.
  7. noun A subdivision once used in parts of the United States and still in use in Delaware solely for the purpose of real estate descriptions.
  8. noun A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
    He made a hundred in the historic match.

Similar words

centred c century cardinal a hundred one c one hundred dime penny cent

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Word family

100 hundredfold hundreds hundredth hundredths

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