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millennium | hundred |

As nouns the difference between millennium and hundred

is that millennium is a period of time consisting of one thousand years while hundred is a hundred-dollar bill.

As a numeral hundred is

a numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.

millennium

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
  • *2013 , Dan Pearson, The Guardian , 24 Mar 2013:
  • *:Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve.
  • (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
  • * 1911 , (Saki), ‘Tobermory’, The Chronicles of Clovis :
    • An archangel ecstatically proclaiming the Millennium , and then finding that it clashed unpardonably with Henley and would have to be indefinitely postponed, could hardly have felt more crestfallen than Cornelius Appin at the reception of his wonderful achievement.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 137:
  • *:the end of the world would be heralded by a series of spectacular and symbolic events […]. According to most commentators, this millennium had already begun.
  • *2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 117:
  • *:Conrad's later years unfolded in the shadow of the coming Millennium , when the end of the world was forecast.
  • A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
  • * 1902 , (William James), The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 318:
    • But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that such a state of things as we now live in is the millennium .
  • (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.

    • Synonyms

    * * kiloyear (kyr) * kiloannum (ka)

    Derived terms

    * millennial * millennium bug English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    hundred

    English

    (wikipedia hundred)

    Alternative forms

    * Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numerals: C * ISO prefix: hecto- * Exponential notation: 102

    Numeral

    (en noun)
  • (cardinal) A numerical value equal to (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
    • hundreds' of places, ' hundreds of thousands of faces
    a hundred', one ' hundred
    nineteen hundred', one thousand nine ' hundred
  • * 2006 November 3, Susan Allport (guest), “Getting the skinny on fat”, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday , National Public Radio:
    • That has really soared over the past a hundred years or so.
  • * 2008 January 21, John Eggerton (interviewee), “The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership”, Justice Talking , National Public Radio:
    • [I]t applies to only the top twenty markets in removing the ban, whereas in two thousand three the FCC was essentially proposing removing it let's say in the top a hundred and seventy markets.
  • * 2009 October 13, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, “In Israel, Kibbutz Life Undergoes Reinvention”, All Things Considered , National Public Radio:
    • Hanatonwas founded in the nineteen eighties, but from the original a hundred and fourteen members, by two thousand and six, only eleven were left.
  • * 2009 October 21, John Ydstie, “U.S. To Order Bailout Firms To Cut Exec Pay”, All Things Considered , National Public Radio:
    • Overall, the top a hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies
  • * 2011 , Kory Stamper, “What ‘Ironic’ Really Means” [http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0035-ironic.htm?&t=1344795725], “Ask the Editor”, Merriam-Webster:
    • Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years.

    Usage notes

    Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine'', the word ''hundred'' is a noun like ''dozen and needs a determiner to function as a numeral. * a hundred''' men / one '''hundred''' men / the '''hundred men * compare a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men * compare ten men / the ten men Hundred'' can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take ''-s when preceded by a determiner. * two hundred''' men / some '''hundred men * hundreds of men

    Synonyms

    * (numerical) one hundred *

    Derived terms

    * hundredfold, hundredweight, hundredth, hundreds and thousands, hundredaire

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, Canada) A hundred-dollar bill.
  • (historical) An administrative subdivision of land in southern English counties and in other countries.
  • (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
    • He made a hundred in the historic match.

    Synonyms

    * (US hundred-dollar bill) Franklin * century

    Derived terms

    * hundredal

    See also

    * wapentake

    Statistics

    * English numerals English refractory feminine rhymes English words suffixed with -red English cardinal numbers 1000 English basic words ----