Hun"dred , a. Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.
Hun"dred (hŭn"dr&ebreve;d), n. [OE. hundred,
AS. hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to
Goth. ga-raþjan to count, L.
ratio reckoning,
account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund,
D. hondred, G. hundert,
OHG. also hunt, Icel.
hundrað, Dan. hundrede, Sw.
hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ.
sto, W. cant, Ir. cead, L. centum, Gr.
"ekato`s, Skr. çata.
√309. Cf. Cent, Century, Hecatomb, Quintal, and Reason.]
1. 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.
With many hundreds treading
on his heels.
Shak. &fist; The
word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes
a plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning
individual objects or
units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually intended to consider each hundred as a separate
aggregate; as, ten hundreds are one thousand.
2. A division of a
country in England, supposed
to have originally contained a hundred families, or
freemen.
Hundred court, a court held for all the
inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone.
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