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hundred | thousand |

Thousand is a synonym of hundred.



In cardinal terms the difference between hundred and thousand

is that hundred is a numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine while thousand is a numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103

As a noun hundred

is a hundred-dollar bill.

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

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

    thousand

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numerals: M * ISO prefix: kilo- * Exponential notation: 103

    Numeral

    (en noun)
  • (cardinal) A numerical value equal to = 10 × 100 = 103
    • The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
    Many thousands of people came to the conference.

    Usage notes

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

    Synonyms

    * (numerical) a thousand, one thousand *

    Derived terms

    * hundreds and thousands, mother of thousands, Thousand Islands, thousandfold, thousandth, thousandaire

    See also

    *

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * * English numerals