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hundred
[huhn-drid]
noun
plural
hundreds ,plural
hundred .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.
hundred
/ ˈʌԻə /
noun
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and ten; five score See also number
a numeral, 100, C, etc, representing this number
(often plural) a large but unspecified number, amount, or quantity
there will be hundreds of people there
the numbers 100 to 109
the temperature was in the hundreds
the numbers 100 to 199
his score went into the hundreds
the numbers 100 to 999
the price was in the hundreds
(plural) the 100 years of a specified century
in the sixteen hundreds
something representing, represented by, or consisting of 100 units
maths the position containing a digit representing that number followed by two zeros
in 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 hundred
a hundred reasons for that
( as pronoun )
the hundred I chose
amounting to 100 times a particular scientific quantity
a hundred volts
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hundred1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hundred1
Idioms and Phrases
keep it one hundred, to remain completely genuine or authentic; be totally honest or truthful. Also keep it 100
Example Sentences
You tell your same origin story a hundred times.
Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino, who has hundreds of his agents carrying out the sweeps in Southern California, doubled down.
Chinese fighter jets have done hundreds of landings and take-offs from the carriers.
Thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands of civilians forced from their homes in recent months following the rebel offensive.
Ms Clutterbuck said she had spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on her legal case.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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