hundredmanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

hundredman (plural hundredmen)

1. (historical) A person overseeing one hundred others; (especially) a man overseeing a hundred-strong army.
   • 1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 31: Assurances”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 496:

     “By your command, Lord Bornhald.” The hundredman sounded only a little disappointed. Touching gauntleted fist to heart, he wheeled away toward the Tuatha’an encampment.

2. (puristic) A centurion.

   Coordinate term: (chiliarch) thousandman, thousandealdorman

同意語

• bailiff, hundreder, hundredary, centenary, centgrave