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

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)

Example Sentences

Boyer’s multimedia oratorio, “A Hundred Years On,” was given its premiere by the Philadelphia Orchestra last month at the orchestra’s outdoor summer home, the Mann Center.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026

It said Henry's family, who come from Chafford Hundred in Essex, had been told of its decision.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026

It was Graham Gooch who coined the phrase 'Daddy Hundred'.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

The production is most effective when the actors are singing, especially Grace Yoo, who plays Mei-Li and had me entranced the moment she started singing “A Hundred Million Miracles.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Why it wasn’t called the Mountain of One Hundred Baby Whales just goes to show that not everyone is as good at giving names as Duane is.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el