hundredth

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun position 100 in a countable series of things
  2. noun one part in a hundred equal parts
  3. adjective the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order

Etymology

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

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