hundred

American  

[huhn-drid] / ˈhʌn drɪd /

noun

• hundreds,
  plural
• hundred
  plural

1. a cardinal number, ten times ten.

2. a symbol for this number, as 100 or C.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

   a hundred of the men.

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

   Property loss was only in the hundreds of dollars.

5. Informal.

   1. a hundred-dollar bill.

   2. the sum of one hundred dollars.

6. (formerly) an administrative division of an English county.

7. a similar division in colonial Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia, and in present-day Delaware.

8. Also called hundred's place. Mathematics.

   1. (in a mixed number) the position of the third digit to the left of the decimal point.

   2. (in a whole number) the position of the third digit from the right.

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adjective

1. amounting to one hundred in number.

idioms

1. keep it one hundred, to remain completely genuine or authentic; be totally honest or truthful. Also keep it 100

hundred British  

/ ˈhʌndrəd /

noun

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and ten; five score See also number

2. a numeral, 100, C, etc, representing this number

3. (often plural) a large but unspecified number, amount, or quantity

   there will be hundreds of people there

4. 1. the numbers 100 to 109

      the temperature was in the hundreds

   2. the numbers 100 to 199

      his score went into the hundreds

   3. the numbers 100 to 999

      the price was in the hundreds

5. (plural) the 100 years of a specified century

   in the sixteen hundreds

6. something representing, represented by, or consisting of 100 units

7. maths the position containing a digit representing that number followed by two zeros

   in 4376, 3 is in the hundred's place

8. an ancient division of a county in England, Ireland, and parts of the US

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determiner

1. 1. amounting to or approximately a hundred

      a hundred reasons for that

   2. ( as pronoun )

      the hundred I chose

2. amounting to 100 times a particular scientific quantity

   a hundred volts

hundred More Idioms  

1. see by the dozen (hundred).

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• hundred
  plural
• hundreds
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of hundred

First recorded before 950; Middle English, Old English (cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hundred, Old Norse hundrath, Dutch honderd, German hundert ), equivalent to hund “a hundred” (cognate with Gothic hund; akin to Latin centum, Albanian qind, Greek hekatón, Avestan satəm, Sanskrit śatám, Old Church Slavonic sŭto, Lithuanian šímtas ) + -red “tale, count,” from Germanic rath, akin to Gothic rathjō “number, account” ( see read ¹)

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Example Sentences

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A couple of hundred fans gathered beneath the market's Victorian roof, some having made the trip specifically for the event while others stopped to see what the fuss was about.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

A few hundred yards farther he maneuvered around a set of antitank obstacles and paused near a tree line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“A hundred twenty years ago, people all lived together — for good or bad,” she added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

“It’s not a hundred students; it’s now thousands of students that have access to these resources.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

We had run long in a day—a hundred and fifty miles—with an adult team in good shape.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

The breach caused the company, Instructure, to temporarily take Canvas offline and interrupted classes, assignments and finals preparations for hundreds of thousands of students and professors as hackers threatened to release their personal data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Among them was a 2015 special that saw hundreds of volunteers work alongside Knowles, Prince William and Prince Harry to build housing for veterans in Manchester.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Wind-whipped flames scorched multi-million dollar homes south of Los Angeles on Friday as a wildfire quickly ravaged hundreds of acres.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Every year, hundreds of animals die trying to cross State Route 62, connecting L.A. and Joshua Tree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

“There’s hundreds of traders passing through each day. Raw silk from Ceretos, gold and voulay drops from Antiok.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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