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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The "telly favourite" has been airing for 27 years, the paper says, adding that the show has helped hundred of families, including building a £1m children's cancer unit.

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

Four hundred years after monks transformed a patch of marshlands in northwest Italy into rice fields, farmer Alice Cerutti has restored a third to their natural state, prioritising biodiversity over crop yield.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Three hundred years ago, everybody "knew" that anger was controlled by the spleen.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

In Paris, police fired a water cannon and teargas after hundreds of protesters, most wearing face masks and some setting off fireworks, confronted them at several locations, AFP reporters saw.

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

But Claire has gone through what happened to her, Jack and Paul, thousands of times, in incredibly intricate detail, with hundreds of different journalists.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Ukrainian defense-tech company General Cherry said it plans to test a new jet-powered interceptor together with the military in early November, and hopes to produce hundreds a month by the end of this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

There were hundreds of bulbs to be planted; Penelope grew weary thinking of all the holes he would have to dig.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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