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HUNDRED logo #10101) Centsinaeuro
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Hundred logo #10101) Alien invasion in fiction 2) Being ten more than ninety 3) Cardinal 4) Exclusively Saxon word 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Fictional virus 7) Franklin bill 8) Imperial unit 9) One hundred 10) Score of the century 11) Ten 10s 12) Ten squared 13) Type of country subdivision 14) Was this weight a ton
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Hundred logo #21000[county division] A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in England, Wales, South Australia and some parts of the United States, to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions; similar divisions were made in Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Norway. Other terms for the hundred in English an...
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Hundred logo #21000[word] Today in English, a hundred is always taken to be equal to 100. The word is cognate with hunderd in Old Frisian, hundrað in Old Norse, and hundert in Old German. ==In history== The existence of a non-decimal base in the earliest traces of the Germanic languages, is attested by the presence of words and glosses meaning that the count...
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Hundred logo #21002• (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 division of a country in England, supposed to have or...
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hundred logo #20148[Noun] Plural form: hundreds. The number 100.
Example: I won a hundred pounds at the bingo.
See also: euro cent
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hundred logo #21003unit 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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Hundred logo #21373A division of a county. A half hundred was sometimes a smaller division, as with Hitchin in Hertfordshire. See also Wapentake.
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hundred logo #21160The smallest three digit number in the decimal system and the smallest square of a two-digit number (10). A hundred today means 100 but, over the years and in different places, it has stood for different values including 112, 120, 124, and 132. The remnants of these old measures still persist in the...
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hundred logo #20688Subdivision 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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hundred logo #209731. 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 may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individ...
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hundred logo #21814 a subdivision of a county (shire), an important unit of local government
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Hundred logo #20972Hun'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 Saxon hunderod , hund , Dutch ho...
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Hundred logo #20972Hun'dred adjective Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.
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Hundred logo #20203Ancient 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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Hundred logo #21212Obs. a sub-division of a Shire, in England.
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Hundred logo #20653a 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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Hundred logo #21217A 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 composed of 100 families. Hundreds are said to have b...
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Hundred logo #22359One hundred runs scored by a single batsman in a single innings. See also Century, Fifty.
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hundred logo #20400[adj] - being ten more than ninety 2. [n] - ten 10s
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hundred logo #23104a division of an English shire consisting of 100 hides. The hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham in Buckinghamshire are known as the Chiltern Hundreds.
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hundred logo #20974one hundred adjective being ten more than ninety
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