hundredth

CEFRB1

/ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/

number · adjective

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    number

    One of one hundred equal parts.

  2. 02

    number

    Extra detail

    One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.

Examples

  • He died a few days before his hundredth birthday.

  • He died within a few days of his hundredth birthday.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
2
Citations
1

Also pronounced

  • /ˈhʌndɹə(t)θ/

Deep Dive

number

Extra meaning

  1. The person or thing in the hundredth position.

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. The ordinal form of the number one hundred.

More examples

In context

  • This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why.

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Origin

number

From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.