Hundredth Meaning
/ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjThe ordinal form of the number one hundred.
nounThe person or thing in the hundredth position.
Sentence Examples
He died within a few days of his hundredth birthday.
He died a few days before his hundredth birthday.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He celebrated his ____ birthday with a small family party at home.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Today is the city's ____ anniversary, and there will be a big celebration in the park.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying."
— 2023 October 9, Dennis Overbye, “The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He celebrated his ____ birthday with a small family party at home.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Today is the city's ____ anniversary, and there will be a big celebration in the park.