A Special Word of the Day

Well folks today is a special day, it is the day we publish our one hundredth post! I know, you're all just as excited as I am. Who would have thought we'd find one hundred things to blog about in under half a year? So I'm sure it will come as no surprise to anyone that the word of the day is...

Hundred:

1. A cardinal number, ten times ten.

2. A set of this many persons or things: a hundred of the men. .

3. Hundreds, a number between 100 and 999, as in referring to an amount of money.

4. Informal: a hundred-dollar bill. 

5. Formerly is was an administrative division of an English county.

6.Similar to no. 5, division in colonial Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia, and in present-day Delaware.

7. Also called hundred's place in mathematics.

I bet none of you knew how many definitions of the word hundred there are, and now for a very obvious sentence example:

This is the one hundredth blog post on The English Review.

Synonyms when hundred pertains to 100:

Centenary, Centennial, Centuplicate, Century, Hundredth.

Synonyms when hundred pertains to a great number:

Army, Cloud, Crowd, Drove, Flock, Host, Legion, Multitude, Myriad, Rout, Swarm, Throng.

By Talia