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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Falcon 9 rockets now fly more than a hundred times a year, and the ability to reuse the bottom part of the rocket has dramatically cut the costs of launch.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

“The radar and cameras sit behind the bumper, so a fender-bender that used to cost a few hundred dollars can now run several thousand once the sensors are replaced and recalibrated.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

"It's an additional cost of several hundred pounds but we're not getting anything extra for that."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Several hundred activists opposed to the construction of a Microsoft data centre in Amsterdam occupied the site on Friday, responding to a call for a two-day protest across Europe.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

About three hundred troops and eight hundred Filipino guerrillas charge into the camp.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

At issue is a clash between the promise of asylum for those fleeing persecution and the reality of a border overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands who arrived seeking to apply.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

According to outage tracker Downdetector, hundreds of thousands of users in more than 70 countries reported problems accessing services including Outlook and Teams beginning Thursday and stretching into Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

There would have been hundreds, if not thousands, of people in the area because within an hour or so of the end of the race the circuit would have been returned to public roads.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged Peru, killing hundreds of thousands of people, the man then known fondly as Padre Robert led an emergency campaign to secure medical oxygen for his community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

I imagine hundreds of years of sailors, lost at sea.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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