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Word: Hundred
Speech Type: Numeral
late Old English hundred, from hund ‘hundred’ (from an Indo-European root shared with Latin centum and Greek hekaton) + a second element meaning ‘number’; of Germanic origin and related to Dutch honderd and German hundert. The noun sense ‘subdivision of a county’ is of uncertain origin: it may originally have been equivalent to a hundred hides of land (see hide)
ˈhʌndrəd
the number equivalent to the product of ten and ten; ten more than ninety; 100
Short Definition:ten more than ninety
Examples:- a hundred yards away
- there are just a hundred of us here
Word: Hundred
Speech Type: Noun
ˈhʌndrəd
a subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court
Short Definition:subdivision of county or shire
Examples:- Wantage Hundred
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