hundredth
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Definition of hundredth
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
“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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adj
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(not-comparable)The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
“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.”
noun
- The person or thing in the hundredth position.
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One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.
“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.”
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Etymology
From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix). The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.
Words you can make from hundredth
99 playable · top: HUNDRED (12 pts)
Best play hundred 12 points7-letter words
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9 words4-letter words
37 words- HETH 10 pts
- HUNH 10 pts
- HERD 8 pts
- HUED 8 pts
- THUD 8 pts
- HENT 7 pts
- HERN 7 pts
- HUNT 7 pts
- HURT 7 pts
- RUTH 7 pts
- THEN 7 pts
- THRU 7 pts
- DUDE 6 pts
- REDD 6 pts
- RUDD 6 pts
- DENT 5 pts
- DUET 5 pts
- DUNE 5 pts
- DUNT 5 pts
- DURE 5 pts
- DURN 5 pts
- NERD 5 pts
- NUDE 5 pts
- NURD 5 pts
- REND 5 pts
- RUDE 5 pts
- RUED 5 pts
- TEND 5 pts
- TURD 5 pts
- UNDE 5 pts
- RENT 4 pts
- RUNE 4 pts
- RUNT 4 pts
- TERN 4 pts
- TRUE 4 pts
- TUNE 4 pts
- TURN 4 pts
3-letter words
32 words- HEH 9 pts
- HUH 9 pts
- DUH 7 pts
- EDH 7 pts
- ETH 6 pts
- HEN 6 pts
- HER 6 pts
- HET 6 pts
- HUE 6 pts
- HUN 6 pts
- HUT 6 pts
- NTH 6 pts
- THE 6 pts
- DUD 5 pts
- DEN 4 pts
- DUE 4 pts
- DUN 4 pts
- END 4 pts
- RED 4 pts
- TED 4 pts
- URD 4 pts
- ERN 3 pts
- NET 3 pts
- NUT 3 pts
- RET 3 pts
- RUE 3 pts
- RUN 3 pts
- RUT 3 pts
- TEN 3 pts
- TUN 3 pts
- URN 3 pts
- UTE 3 pts
2-letter words
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