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Definition: A Hundred |
A HundredAdjective1. Being ten more than ninety. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: A HundredSynonyms: c (adj), hundred (adj), one hundred (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Five | Noun: five, cinque, quint, quincux; six, half-a-dozen, half dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; dicker; ten, decade; eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long dozen, baker's dozen; quintuplet; twenty, score; twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen; twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half a hundred; sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four score; ninety, fourscore and ten; sestiad. |
Multitude | Adjective: many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty; half a dozen, half a hundred; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous; numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded; galore. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: A Hundred |
| English words defined with "a hundred": about, approximately, around, Avoirdupois weight ♦ Briarean ♦ Cantref, Centifidous, Centifolious, Centiloquy, Centuplicate, close to ♦ decrease, Deep-sea lead, diminish ♦ Eightscore ♦ fall ♦ googol, grammar school ♦ High constable, Hundred court, Hundreder, hundredth ♦ just about ♦ Kentle ♦ lessen, log line ♦ more or less ♦ one percent, one-hundredth, or so, order ♦ Prickly pear, purchase order ♦ Quarteron ♦ roughly ♦ Sevenscore, some ♦ Typhoean, Typhon ♦ View of frankpledge. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "a hundred": 100-year flood ♦ 6502 ♦ A Portrait of J. Random Hacker, Anniversary ♦ Briareos ♦ Cerberus ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ Giants ♦ Hundred Miles ♦ Notables ♦ obsessed ♦ Struldbrugs, submarine fan, synchronous key encryption ♦ Yacu-mama. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My neck and my back. I want a hundred and fifty thousand! (Friday; writing credit: D.J. Pooh, Ice Cube) You're a hundred times too good. (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart) Brandt can't watch, though, or he has to pay a hundred. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) Three dimes, a hundred dollar bill and 87 ones. (Big; writing credit: Gary Ross; Anne Spielberg) You're a hundred feet away. (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost) | |
Lyrics | She was the same as a hundred ladies (Ebony Eyes; performing artist: Bob Welch; writing credit: Bob Welch) Is like a hundred years (All 4 Love; performing artist: Color Me Badd) I must be a hundred and nine (Burning Love; performing artist: Elvis Presley) Yeah he were cut in in bout a hundred places (You Don't Mess Around With Jim; performing artist: Jim Croce) And there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum ("The Battle of New Orleans"; performing artist: Johnny Horton) | |
Clever | A tear shed can say more than a hundred words spoken. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Hundred Thousand Children (1955) | |
Song Titles | A Hundred Pounds of Clay (performing artist: Gene McDaniels) | |
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 | Last Night, These Men Slept With Each Other And A Hundred More Without Knowing It. : Use Condoms. There's Living Proof They Stop AIDS. / Photography by Barbara Talbott. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | All firing was suspended until the sad procession of a hundred or more, weeping and wailing and wringing their hands, had passed. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | You can have it for a hundred guineas. That's the price; it's an antique and I should charge more, but the treatment is a little free. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Y'know Molly, I'd be willin' to pay a hundred thousand dollars to be able to do that. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Iz mo an a hundred Honey! / W.J. Chambers, Montgomery, Ala. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Migratory agricultural workers picking beans at seven cents a hundred pounds in a field near Statensville, Delaware. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cotton pickers who receive fifty cents a hundred pounds. Kaufman County, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Childersburg, Alabama. Bunkhouse which accomodates a hundred workers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Worker from Fort Bragg and his family living in an old streetcar. He is building for their "new home." Came a hundred miles for this job and expect to move on soon. Near Manchester, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A hundred miles of spring on the river Pu. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Lamb | A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. |
Confucius | Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred others away. |
| One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the sound. | |
Dwight L. Moody | Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. |
George Herbert | One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. |
| The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. | |
Laurence Sterne | For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. |
Samuel Butler | A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | He that gathered a hundred bushels of acorns or apples, had thereby a property in them, they were his goods as soon as gathered. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Then we tried a hundred yards to the mile. |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | A man can't cross a hundred thousand light years, mostly in other people's baggage compartments, without beginning to fray a little, and Arthur had frayed a lot. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was more than a hundred years old. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Nearly a hundred people have to go out and wander on the roads for your three dollars a day. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The island of Luggnagg stands southeastward of Japan, about a hundred leagues distant. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Some I have seen, sixty or a hundred feet long and thirty feet broad. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Amazingly, up to a hundred worms can infect one person. (references) | |
Business | This industrial exhibition of Polish cities presents an offer of nearly a hundred of Polish urban communities. (references) | |
The requirement is to obtain a hundred percent compensation, but the actual amount of offset has varied with the project. (references) | ||
Economic History | Finland | The Finnish telephone network is a hundred percent digital with extensive use of intelligent network (IN) technology. (references) |
Georgia | Any foreign company or person can obtain the right to mine unexplored deposits, which number around 1200. Georgia has significant deposits of manganese, which have been extracted in Chiatura region for over a hundred years. (references) | |
Political Economy | Finland | Despite its Marxist origin a hundred years ago, the modern SDP is supportive of the market economy and individual rights. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not. |
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Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | But here are a hundred millions, with common concern and shared responsibility, answerable to God and country. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I hope it may be said, a hundred years from now, that by working together we helped to make our country more just, more just for all of its people, as well as to insure and guarantee the blessings of liberty for all of our posterity. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | A hundred years ago we moved from farm to factory. |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "a hundred". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Meah | N/A | Biblical | A hundred cubits |
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Expressions using "a hundred": a hundred and one ♦ a hundred per cent ♦ a hundred per cent testing ♦ a hundred thousand ♦ a hundred times ♦ one in a hundred. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "a hundred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 一百 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sata (hundred, one hundred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | centaine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Galician | 100$ (a hundred dollars). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vollständiges Testen (a hundred per cent testing, exhaustive testing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξαντλητικές δοκιμές (a hundred per cent testing, exhaustive testing), δοκιμές 100% (a hundred per cent testing, exhaustive testing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | száznál többet számlál (to number over a hundred), száz felett van (to number over a hundred), száz ember szolgál alatta (have a hundred men under one), pontosan száz kilót nyom (to tip the scale at a hundred kilograms), mint száz (to number over a hundred), egy százas erejéig berántják vmibe (to be let in for a hundred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cento (hundred, one, one hundred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 一束 (a bundle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひとたば (a bundle), いっそく (a bundle, a pair, excellence, fast runner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aay undredhay teste exaustivo (a hundred per cent testing, exhaustive testing), teste a 100 % (a hundred per cent testing, exhaustive testing). (various references) ceud (first, hundred, hundreds : an ceud and a', one hundred). (various references) pruebas exhaustivas (a hundred per cent testing, exhaustive testing), pruebas completas al 100% (a hundred per cent testing, exhaustive testing), cien por cien (a hundred per cent, all over, out and out, stalwart). (various references) en på hundra (one in a hundred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 11, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai autai ai geneseiV shm shm uioV ekaton etwn ote egennhsen ton arfaxad deuterou etouV meta ton kataklusmon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Hae generationes Sem Sem centum erat annorum quando genuit Arfaxad biennio post diluvium |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thes ben the generaciouns of Sem. Sem was of an hundrid yeeris whanne he gat Arfaxad, two yeer aftre the flood. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | These are the generations of Sem: Se was an hundred yere olde and begat Arcphachsad ij. yere after the floude. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters; |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 11, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Kini mao ang mga kaliwatan ni Sem, may panuigon nga usa ka gatus ka tuig, ug nanganak kang Arphaxad, duruha ka tuig sa human ang lunop. |
| Croatian | Ovo su potomci emovi: Kad je emu bilo sto godina - dvije godine poslije Potopa - rodi mu se Arpakšad. |
| Dutch | Deze zijn de geboorten van Sem: Sem was honderd jaren oud, en gewon Arfachsad, twee jaren na den vloed. |
| Finnish | Tämä on kertomus Seemin suvusta. Kun Seem oli sadan vuoden vanha, syntyi hänelle Arpaksad kaksi vuotta vedenpaisumuksen jälkeen. |
| French | Voici la postérité de Sem. Sem, âgé de cent ans, engendra Arpacschad, deux ans après le déluge. |
| German | Dies sind die Geschlechter Sems: Sem war hundert Jahre alt und zeugte Arphachsad, zwei Jahre nach der Sintflut, |
| Hungarian | Ez a Sém nemzetsége: Sém száz esztendõs korában nemzé Arpaksádot, két esztendõvel az özönvíz után. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Syahadan, maka inilah anak cucu Sem: tatkala umur Sem seratus tahun diperolehnya Arfaksad, yaitu dua tahun kemudian dari pada air bah. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko nga whakatupuranga enei o Hema: ka kotahi rau nga tau o Hema, na ka whanau a Arapahata i te rua o nga tau i muri i te waipuke: |
| Norwegian | Dette er historien om Sems ætt: Da Sem var hundre år gammel, fikk han sønnen Arpaksad to år efter vannflommen. |
| Portuguese | Estas são as gerações de Sem. Tinha ele cem anos, quando gerou a Arfaxade, dois anos depois do dilúvio. |
| Rumanian | Iatq spiya neamului lui Sem. La vkrsta de o sutq de ani, Sem a nqscut pe Arpacwad, la doi ani dupq potop. |
| Russian | чПФ ТП"ПУМПЧЙЕ уЙНБ: уЙН 'ЩМ УФБ МЕФ Й ТП"ЙМ бТЖБЛУБ"Б, ЮТЕЪ "ЧБ ЗП"Б ПУМЕ ПФП Б; |
| Swedish | Detta är berättelsen om Sems släkt. När Sem var hundra år gammal, födde han Arpaksad, två år efter floden. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-h-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: daunder, hundred, unheard. | |
-2 letters: dander, darned, dhurna, durned, handed, harden, undead, unread. | |
-3 letters: adder, dared, denar, dread, dured, haded, hared, heard, nuder, readd, redan, udder, under. | |
-4 letters: dare, darn, dead, dean, dear, duad, dude, dune, dura, dure, durn, earn, hade, haed, haen, hand, hard, hare, head, hear, herd, hern, hued, nard, near, nerd, nude. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-h-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: underhand. | |
+2 letters: dunderhead, unheralded, unthreaded. | |
+3 letters: dreadnought, dunderheads, roundheaded, thunderhead, underhanded. | |
+4 letters: dreadnoughts, dunderheaded, thunderheads, undercharged, undischarged. | |
+5 letters: granddaughter, schadenfreude, superhardened, underachieved, underhandedly. | |
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