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Definition of Hundreds
1. hundred [n] - See also: hundred
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hundreds
Literary usage of Hundreds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Journal of Education by Barnard (1882)
"3 thousands, 5 hundreds, 7 tens, 9 ones. " Now read out the result you have written
... Again the 11 hundreds are the same as 1 hundred and ?" 1 thousand. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"hundreds.—As ten families of freeholders make up a town or tithing, so ten tithings
... In some of the more northern counties these hundreds are called ..."
3. The Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1851)
"And the king stood by the pate pide, and all the people came out by hundreds and
by thousands. while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. ..."
4. Arithmetic Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction: Being a Sequel to by Warren Colburn (1831)
"478 men 564 men 5i)3 men In all 1635 men In this example, each of the numbers is
divided into three parts, hundreds, tens, and units. ..."
5. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1897)
"... was • patterned after the old English county court, and it was natural that
its units should be conceived as hundreds and in some instances called so. ..."
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