hundred

[ huhn-drid ]

/ ˈhʌn drɪd /

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noun, plural hun·dreds, (as after a numeral) hun·dred.

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.

adjective

amounting to one hundred in number.

Words nearby hundred

hunch, hunchback, hunchback of notre dame, the, hunchbacked, hund., hundred, hundred and eighty degree turn, hundred days, hundred flowers, hundred years' war, hundred's place

Idioms for 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, Greek hekatón, Avestan satəm, Sanskrit śatám, Old Church Slavonicsŭto, Lithuanian šímtas) + -red “tale, count,” from Germanic rath, akin to Gothic rathjō “number, account” (see read¹)

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Examples from the Web for hundreds

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Hundreds of cops saluting as the bodies were rolled out with a full escort by highway patrol.
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Hundreds of years ago the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street.
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There were hundreds of other things in the great city, but they had their share of patronage.
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The farm was near the Indian camping ground; hundreds of them were often around us.
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From hundreds of clippings a few characteristic examples are selected.
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They came, not by hundreds, but by thousands and millions, until the frogs covered all that land.
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There was something in this, for there were hundreds then, where there are now dozens, and it was risky.
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British Dictionary definitions for hundreds

hundred

/ (ˈhʌndrəd) /

noun plural -dreds or -dred

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and ten; five scoreSee also number (def. 1)

a numeral, 100, C, etc, representing this number

(often plural) a large but unspecified number, amount, or quantitythere will be hundreds of people there

the hundreds

the numbers 100 to 109the temperature was in the hundreds
the numbers 100 to 199his score went into the hundreds
the numbers 100 to 999the price was in the hundreds

(plural) the 100 years of a specified centuryin the sixteen hundreds

something representing, represented by, or consisting of 100 units

maths the position containing a digit representing that number followed by two zerosin 4376, 3 is in the hundred's place

an ancient division of a county in England, Ireland, and parts of the US

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

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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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hundred

see by the dozen (hundred).

hundred

noun, plural hun·dreds, (as after a numeral) hun·dred.

adjective

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noun plural -dreds or -dred

determiner

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