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.

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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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How to use hundred in a sentence

The American military may have launched hundreds of airstrikes on Iraq and Syria.
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If ISIS “came into a base and killed hundreds of troops, then people would ask a lot more questions.”
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Some “hanging judges” have handed down hundreds of death sentences at a time.
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And the cameras on the busier streets would show hundreds of people going past.
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Over the next six months hundreds of same-sex couples married.
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We have made several hundreds prisoners, and have killed a multitude of the enemy.
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Hundreds of soldiers already lined the streets to keep the crowd back out of the way of the procession.
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From some points, hundreds of acres of the Swedish and French may be seen, and they are rarely or never out of view.
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A suitable stone for such a purpose will be picked up and carried hundreds of miles.
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Competing stores needlessly occupy the time of hundreds of thousands of employees in a mixture of idleness and industry.
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British Dictionary definitions for hundred

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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