ETYM Old Eng. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division.
Ten 10s.

Being ten more than ninety; SYN. a hundred, one hundred, 100.

Town in West Virginia (USA); zip code 26575.
Subdivision of a shire in England, Ireland, and parts of the US. The term was originally used by Germanic peoples to denote a group of 100 warriors, also the area occupied by 100 families or equaling 100 hides (one hide being the amount of land necessary to support a peasant family). When the Germanic peoples settled in England, the hundred remained the basic military and administrative division of England until its abolition 1867.