hundredweight

1. 1.

   a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms

   Synonymsmetric hundredweightdoppelzentnercentner

   Broadermetric weight unit

   Part ofquintal

   Partscentner
2. 2.

   a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds

   Synonymscwtshort hundredweightcentnercentalquintal

   Broaderavoirdupois unit

   Part ofshort ton

   Partsquarter
3. 3.

   a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds

   Synonymscwtlong hundredweight

   Broaderavoirdupois unit

   Part oflong ton

   Partsquarter

Other forms of hundredweight

plural

hundredweights·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hundredweight

What does hundredweight mean?

hundredweight means "a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hundredweight?

hundredweight has 3 syllables: hun-dre-dweight. The stress falls on "hun". In IPA it is /ˈhʌndɹəˌdweɪt/.

What is another word for hundredweight?

Close synonyms include metric hundredweight, doppelzentner, centner, cwt, short hundredweight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hundredweight a common word?

hundredweight is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.