hundred
Americannoun
plural
hundreds,plural
hundred-
a cardinal number, ten times ten.
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a symbol for this number, as 100 or C.
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a set of this many persons or things.
a hundred of the men.
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hundreds, a number between 100 and 999, as in referring to an amount of money.
Property loss was only in the hundreds of dollars.
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Informal.
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a hundred-dollar bill.
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the sum of one hundred dollars.
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(formerly) an administrative division of an English county.
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a similar division in colonial Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia, and in present-day Delaware.
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Also called hundred's place. Mathematics.
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(in a mixed number) the position of the third digit to the left of the decimal point.
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(in a whole number) the position of the third digit from the right.
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adjective
idioms
noun
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the cardinal number that is the product of ten and ten; five score See also number
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a numeral, 100, C, etc, representing this number
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(often plural) a large but unspecified number, amount, or quantity
there will be hundreds of people there
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the numbers 100 to 109
the temperature was in the hundreds
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the numbers 100 to 199
his score went into the hundreds
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the numbers 100 to 999
the price was in the hundreds
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(plural) the 100 years of a specified century
in the sixteen hundreds
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something representing, represented by, or consisting of 100 units
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maths the position containing a digit representing that number followed by two zeros
in 4376, 3 is in the hundred's place
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an ancient division of a county in England, Ireland, and parts of the US
determiner
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amounting to or approximately a hundred
a hundred reasons for that
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( as pronoun )
the hundred I chose
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amounting to 100 times a particular scientific quantity
a hundred volts
Etymology
Origin of hundred
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 )
Example Sentences
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The cancellations occurred as, globally, hundreds of thousands of travelers were stranded Sunday, according to the Associated Press.
From Los Angeles Times
He said the operation has hit “hundreds of targets in Iran.”
From Los Angeles Times
Within a few days, it had hundreds of thousands of views and 1,000 people signed up.
In the meantime, hundreds attempted to storm the Green Zone, where the U.S. embassy is located, before being pushed back by police forces.
From Los Angeles Times
But Defence Secretary John Healey said some 300 UK troops had been within "a few hundred yards" of an Iranian strike on a base in Bahrain.
From BBC
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