hundred
a cardinal number, ten times ten.
a symbol for this number, as 100 or C.
a set of this many persons or things: a hundred of the men.
hundreds, a number between 100 and 999, as in referring to an amount of money: Property loss was only in the hundreds of dollars.
Informal.
a hundred-dollar bill.
the sum of one hundred dollars.
(formerly) an administrative division of an English county.
a similar division in colonial Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia, and in present-day Delaware.
Also called hundred's place. Mathematics.
(in a mixed number) the position of the third digit to the left of the decimal point.
(in a whole number) the position of the third digit from the right.
amounting to one hundred in number.
Idioms about hundred
keep it one hundred, Slang. to remain completely genuine or authentic; be totally honest or truthful. : Also keep it 100 .
Origin of hundred
1Words Nearby hundred
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How to use hundred in a sentence
A hundred ultra-wealthy liberal and conservative donors have taken over the political system.
A running joke inside the tribe is that the group is like that club with a hundred people waiting outside to get in.
‘We Out Here’: Inside the New Black Travel Movement | Charlise Ferguson | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd of course, Rod, being Rod, goes for it a hundred percent; his mouth drops open and he says, ‘What?’
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile | Robert Ward | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe carried around a hundred pounds too many most of his life, a great buffer of flesh between himself and the world.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis photography has won more than a hundred awards, including the prestigious Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftIt contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftSo much were they surprised at our undauntedness, that they retired about a hundred roods from us.
And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftThe enemy were pursued and annoyed by a few hundred of the citizens under Wooster and Arnold; the former was killed.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel Munsell
British Dictionary definitions for hundred
/ (ˈhʌndrəd) /
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and ten; five score: See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 100, C, etc, representing this number
(often plural) a large but unspecified number, amount, or quantity: there will be hundreds of people there
the hundreds
the numbers 100 to 109: the temperature was in the hundreds
the numbers 100 to 199: his score went into the hundreds
the numbers 100 to 999: the price was in the hundreds
(plural) the 100 years of a specified century: in the sixteen hundreds
something representing, represented by, or consisting of 100 units
maths the position containing a digit representing that number followed by two zeros: in 4376, 3 is in the hundred's place
an ancient division of a county in England, Ireland, and parts of the US
amounting to or approximately a hundred: a hundred reasons for that
(as pronoun): the hundred I chose
amounting to 100 times a particular scientific quantity: a hundred volts
Origin of hundred
1Other words from hundred
- Related prefix: hecto-
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Other Idioms and Phrases with hundred
see by the dozen (hundred).
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