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/ˈhəndrid/,
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hundreds, plural;
  1. A subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court

Number (cardinal)
  1. The number equivalent to the product of ten and ten; ten more than ninety; 100
    • - a hundred yards away
    • - there are just a hundred of us here
  2. The numbers from 100 to 999
    • - an unknown number, probably in the hundreds, had already been lost
  3. Several hundred things or people
    • - it cost hundreds of dollars
  4. An unspecified large number
    • - hundreds of letters poured in
  5. The years of a specified century
    • - the early nineteen hundreds
  6. One hundred years old
    • - you must be over a hundred!
  7. One hundred miles per hour

  8. A hundred-dollar bill

  9. (chiefly in spoken English) Used to express whole hours in the twenty-four-hour system
    • - thirteen hundred hours
  1. being ten more than ninety
  2. ten 10s
  3. 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 divisions. ...
  4. A listing of the Hundreds of Delaware. Hundreds are unincorporated subdivisions of counties, equivalent to townships, and were once used as a basis for representation in the Delaware General Assembly. ...
  5. 100 (one hundred) (Roman numeral C, for centum) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
  6. 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. ...
  7. A hundred-dollar bill; An administrative subdivision in southern English counties and in other countries; A hundred runs scored by a batsman
  8. (hundreds) more than one hundred; in the hundreds place
  9. (HUNDREDS) Good, excellent, enjoyable. ‘Hey bru*, I skeem* the jorl* was kiff*. What do you skeem?’ ‘Ja, bru, it was hundreds.’
  10. (Hundreds) Both players try to shoot their taws into a one-foot hole. If both taws go in, players start over. If one player's marble goes in and the other player's marble doesn't, the player whose marble went in scores ten points. ...
  11. Hundredum Large administrative subdivision of land, each having its own representative body from local villages. Domesday commissioners collected information from these assemblies for the Domesday survey. In Danelaw counties the equivalent was the wapentake.
  12. administrative unit deriving from 100 'tithings'
  13. crowns - about £25 - more than a labourer might earn in a year
  14. The largest administrative division of a Shire. The Hundred was nominally 100 hides, but in practice the size of a Hundred varied widely from place to place.
  15. A unit of local administration introduced in the tenth century, (normally) larger than a village but smaller than a county; the name has some connection to a territory of 100 "hides" (a measurement of area), although this was not consistently the case in practice. ...
  16. originally came into use under the Saxon organization of England, with each county or shire comprised of an indefinite number of hundreds (civil administrative regions), each hundred containing at least ten tithings, or groups of ten families of freeholders or frankpledges. ...
  17. an administrative subdivision that existed in southern English counties prior to the 1974 government reorganization of the counties (see also wapentake). It was the amount of land required to sustain 100 families and would normally be 1500 to 3000 acres.
  18. Anglo Saxon institution. Subdivision of a Shire. Theoretically, but hardly ever, equalled one hundred hides. Generally has its own court which met monthly to handle civil and criminal law. Equivalent to the ancient Norse Wapentake. There was a Hemyock Hundred.
  19. An ancient Saxon judicial division of a county originating, it is said, from there having been an hundred free families resident in it. The hundred was liable for damages consequent on such crimes as riotous assembly, burndown houses and trees, felony, etc.
  20. In England, etc.: A subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court. It was originally supposed to denote an area which contained a hundred families
  21. Adminstrative division of an English shire (county).
  22. A division of a county. A half hundred was sometimes a smaller division, as with Hitchin in Hertfordshire. See also Wapentake.
  23. a subdivision of a county. The term has obscure Medieval origins, but it was still used in the 17th century.
  24. A political subdivision in old England.