Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 10 × 10 or 102.
- noun The number in the third position left of the decimal point in an Arabic numeral.
- noun A one-hundred-dollar bill.
- noun The numbers between 100 and 999.
- noun An administrative division of some counties in England and the United States.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sum of ninety-nine and one, or of ten tens; the product of ten multiplied by ten; a collection, body, or sum consisting of ten times ten individuals or units; five score.
- noun In early Teutonic hist., a territorial or administrative district; specifically, in southern and central England, a division or subdivision of a county (a corresponding division in northern England being called a wapentake).
- One more than ninety-nine; ten times ten: as, a hundred men; two hundred dollars; a hundred thousand times.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C.
- noun A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a
hundred families, or freemen. - noun [Eng.] a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred.
- adjective Ten times ten; five score.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cardinal A
numerical value equal to100 (102), occurring afterninety-nine . - noun US A hundred-
dollar bill . - noun historical An
administrative subdivision in southern Englishcounties and in other countries. - noun cricket A hundred
runs scored by abatsman .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being ten more than ninety
- noun ten 10s
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But a little consideration will satisfy the people that the effect is the same as if _seven hundred dollars_ were given them from the public Treasury, for which they were at the same time required to pay in taxes, direct or indirect, _eight hundred_.
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"Wages will keep on rising, little by little, little by little, as steadily as a tree grows, and at the end of three hundred and forty years more there'll be at least _one_ country where the mechanic's average wage will be _two hundred_ cents a day!"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 7. Mark Twain 1872
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"Wages will keep on rising, little by little, little by little, as steadily as a tree grows, and at the end of three hundred and forty years more there'll be at least _one_ country where the mechanic's average wage will be _two hundred_ cents a day!"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872
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And this only the aggregate of eight different papers, while Boston alone now has _one hundred and forty_ papers and periodicals of all sorts, and the State of Massachusetts nearly _three hundred_!
The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. 1859
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Talefre above six hundred -- the total, when joined, two thousand five hundred yards; and this enormous mass of solid ice is forced through a narrow neck of the valley, which is, in round numbers, only _nine hundred_ yards wide!
Rivers of Ice 1859
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In Havana, in 1833, containing a stationary population of about _one hundred and twenty thousand_, cholera carried off, in a few weeks, if we may credit the public journals, _sixteen thousand_; and, in Matanzas, containing a population of about _twelve thousand_, it was announced that _fifteen hundred_ perished.
An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health 1823
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But this was not all, the five hundred copies were sold to great advantage, for it was against my will that _five hundred_ copies should be printed, till the printer told me he would take the risk on himself, on the usual terms, at that time, of bookseller and author.
The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan William Lisle Bowles 1806
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(in 1850) _four hundred and twenty-seven_ inhabitants, -- and Bigger, which has _seven hundred_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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_quantity_ and _head_, it is obvious that a stream _one-half_ as big falling _twice_ as far, would still give one horsepower at the wheel; or, a stream of 189 cubic feet a minute falling _ten times_ as far, 30 feet, would give _ten times_ the power, or _ten_ horsepower; a stream falling _one hundred times_ as far would give _one hundred_ horsepower.
Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine Frederick Irving Anderson 1912
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A fiery arrow seems to be let loose, which from that moment is destined to travel, without intermission, westwards for three hundred [Footnote: "_Three hundred_": -- Of necessity, this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous.
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc Thomas De Quincey 1822
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