Look up: hundred

1. hundred
   [Noun] Plural form: hundreds. The number 100.
   Example: I won a hundred pounds at the bingo.
   See also: euro cent
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2. Hundred
   Ancient Measurement Terms: Anglo Saxon institution. Subdivision of a Shire. Theoretically, but hardly ever, equalled one hundred hides. Generally had its own court which met monthly to handle civil and criminal law. Equivalent to the ancient Norse Wapentake. There was a Hemyock Hundred.
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3. hundred
   [adj] - being ten more than ninety 2. [n] - ten 10s
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4. Hundred
   a unit of fiscal assessment and local government outside the DANELAW, originally containing 100 HIDEs, intermediate between the county and the MANOR, roughly equivalent in size to the modern District; cantrefi in Wales
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5. hundred
   Subdivision of a shire in England, Ireland, and parts of the USA. The term was originally used by Germanic peoples to denote a group of 100 warriors, also the area occupied by 100 families or...
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6. hundred
   the basis of rendering accounts to treaty reinsurers; only the total of premiums and claims, etc. is shown, and not the proportion to which each reinsurer is entitled, the proportion being given only for the net balance due to or from each reinsurer Category: Insurance
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7. Hundred
   Hun'dred (hŭn'drĕd) noun [ Middle English hundred , Anglo-Saxon hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-raþjan to count, Latin ratio reckoning, account; akin to Old Sa...
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8. Hundred
   Hun'dred adjective Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.
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9. hundred
   1. The product of ten mulitplied 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. ... The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc, often takes a plural form. We m...
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10. hundred
    one hundred adjective being ten more than ninety
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11. Hundred
    • (n.) The product of ten mulitplied 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. • (a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars. • (n.) A div...
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12. hundred
    unit of English local government and taxation, intermediate between village and shire, which survived into the 19th century. Originally, the term ... [6 related articles]
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13. hundred
    a unit of quantity. In commercial use in old England the term 'hundred', or cent (C), did not always mean an even 100; sometimes it meant 120 (the 'great hundred') or some other number, depending on the item. For fish, the exact number in a hundred varied with the species.
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14. hundred
    an old English unit of area equal to 100 hides (see above). This is roughly 12 000 acres, 5000 hectares, or 18.75 square miles. The hundred is approximately the area of a village with its associated fields, so the name 'hundred' came to mean a minor division of a shire or county. This use carried ov...
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15. hundred
    hundred, in English history, a subdivision of a shire, first mentioned in the 10th cent. and surviving as a unit of local government into the 19th cent. It is thought that in origin the hundred comprised 100 geld hides, the geld hide being the basic Anglo-Saxon land unit for taxation purposes; but t...
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16. Hundred
    Obs. a sub-division of a Shire, in England.
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17. Hundred
    A Hundred was a former division of an English, and later Irish, shire or county having its own court. It was so called, according to some writers, because each hundred found 100 sureties of the king's peace, or 100 able-bodied men of war. Others think it to have been so called because originally com...
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18. Hundred
    A division of a county. A half hundred was sometimes a smaller division, as with Hitchin in Hertfordshire. See also Wapentake.
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19. Hundred
    (county subdivision) A `hundred` is a geographic division formerly used in England, Wales, Denmark, South Australia, some parts of the United States, Germany (Southern Schleswig), Sweden, Finland and Norway, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative div...
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20. Hundred
    (word) Today in English, a `hundred` is always taken to be equal to 100. However, before the 18th century, it could mean other values, depending on the objects being counted. Sometimes the value of 100 was referred to as a `small hundred` and the larger value of 120 was referred to as a `long...
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