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

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But after receiving several hundred reader responses, I have been very deeply humbled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The Orange County turtle nests are several hundred miles farther north than the turtles have ever been seen nesting before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

According to the observations, the white dwarf's present-day magnetic field could sustain a bow shock for only a few hundred years.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

Several hundred people had gathered outside a police investigation centre in Basingstoke on Thursday evening believing Thomas was inside.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

With these coupons Fred could “legally” continue to issue us one hundred cards.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

That’s a particular concern for Nvidia, which has backstopped customers to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

A records request from a Pflugerville resident found that hundreds of agencies across the United States had been using the city’s Flock data.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

"My flat's car park was under water -- it never floods, even in 2011" when hundreds of people died across Thailand in heavy deluges, he said, asking AFP not to publish his family name.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Food that would otherwise be thrown away by supermarkets is helping to feed hundreds of families and schoolchildren through a community meal scheme.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

“I’ve been here hundreds of times before. I know it.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell