hundred

Meanings

• Number

  A number that represents the quantity of one hundred.

  - "He has one hundred dollars."
  - "There are one hundred students in the class."

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Pronunciation

1. /ˈhʌndɚd/
   
   
   
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2. /ˈhʌndɚd/
   
   
   
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Synonyms

Franklin , c-note , yard , barony , commote , rape , riding , wapentake , century , one hundred

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with hundred
thunder , plunder , munder , sunder

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Variants

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100 , hundred , hundredfold , hundreds , hundredth , hundredths , hundred-percenter , hundred-percenters , hundred-percentism , hundred-percentisms , 400 , 400s , Four Hundred , Four Hundreds , four hundred , ninety-nine times out of a hundred

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Etymology

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Old English hundræde, from hund 'hundred' + ræd 'red' (a counting board with 100 squares)

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Trivia

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1. One hundred is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of four cubes in three different ways.

2. The number 100 is the only number that is both an Harshad number (a number divisible by the sum of its digits) and a Kaprekar number (a number that, when its digits are squared and then the digits of the result are added together repeatedly until a single digit is reached, will always result in the digit 1).

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Related Concepts

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1. Century: A period of one hundred years

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Culture

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In many cultures, the number 100 is considered a significant milestone. For example, in China, 100 is considered a lucky number due to its phonetic similarity to the word for 'completion'. In literature, the number 100 is often used as a symbol of completeness or perfection.

How to Memorize "hundred"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a hundred-piece puzzle or a hundred beads on a string

2. associate
   

   - Think of one hundred as ten groups of ten

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the phrase 'Bunch Of Nines' to remember that 100 is one hundred, or 10 tens and 0 ones

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