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hundred
[ huhn-drid ]
noun
- 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
/ ˈhʌndrəd /
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 hundreds
- 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
Word History and Origins
Origin of hundred1
Word History and Origins
Origin of hundred1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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
A hundred ultra-wealthy liberal and conservative donors have taken over the political system.
A running joke inside the tribe is that the group is like that club with a hundred people waiting outside to get in.
And of course, Rod, being Rod, goes for it a hundred percent; his mouth drops open and he says, ‘What?’
He carried around a hundred pounds too many most of his life, a great buffer of flesh between himself and the world.
His photography has won more than a hundred awards, including the prestigious Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
So much were they surprised at our undauntedness, that they retired about a hundred roods from us.
And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.
The enemy were pursued and annoyed by a few hundred of the citizens under Wooster and Arnold; the former was killed.
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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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