hundred
[ huhn-drid ]
/ ˈhʌn drɪd /
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noun, plural hun·dreds, (as after a numeral) hun·dred.
adjective
amounting to one hundred in number.
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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
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 read1)
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British Dictionary definitions for hundred
hundred
/ (ˈhʌndrəd) /
noun plural -dreds or -dred
determiner
- amounting to or approximately a hundreda hundred reasons for that
- (as pronoun)the hundred I chose
amounting to 100 times a particular scientific quantitya hundred volts
Other words from hundred
Related prefix: hecto-Word Origin for hundred
Old English; related to Old Frisian hunderd, Old Norse hundrath, German hundert, Gothic hund, Latin centum, Greek hekaton
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Other Idioms and Phrases with hundred
hundred
see by the dozen (hundred).
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