hundred

Meaning

Noun

• A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
• An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
• Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
• A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

Related

Similar words

• cent , one hundred
• Franklin, yard, c-note
• barony (Ireland), see also riding#Etymology 2, wapentake, rape#Etymology 2, commote (Wales)
• century

Narrower meaning words

• See carucate ( hundred & for smaller divisions)

Broader meaning words

• See county and tithing

Origin

• From Middle English hundred, from , from , from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą. Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.