hundred

[ huhn-drid ]

noun

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

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.

adjective

1. amounting to one hundred in number.

hundred

/ 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. the hundreds
   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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of hundred¹

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” ( read ¹ )

Word History and Origins

Origin of hundred¹

Old English; related to Old Frisian hunderd, Old Norse hundrath, German hundert, Gothic hund, Latin centum, Greek hekaton

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. keep it one hundred, Slang. to remain completely genuine or authentic; be totally honest or truthful. Also keep it 100.

More idioms and phrases containing hundred

see by the dozen (hundred) .

Example Sentences

The crisis facing Scotland's prisons evidently extends well beyond a few hundred foreign inmates.

From BBC

The BBC has also spoken to a number of businesses from south Wales who said they paid hundreds in sponsorship, in return for their company name on the front of shirts, on banners and kit.

From BBC

Members of the Palestinian militant group Black September had taken 11 Israeli athletes hostage, demanding the release of hundreds of prisoners held in their country’s jails.

From Los Angeles Times

"There were hundreds of genocides and ecocides in human history before, but this one in Palestine sits at a fork in human history," he said.

From Salon

As national security minister, he has given out free firearms to hundreds of settlers and has encouraged them to assert their right to what - they say - is their "God-given" land.

From BBC