Hundred Definition & Meaning

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Synonyms hundred American [huhn-drid] / ˈhʌn drɪd /

noun

plural

hundreds,

plural

hundred

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.

idioms

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

hundred British / 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. 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

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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

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1. see by the dozen (hundred).

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 )

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Dr Mo Verhoeven, lead conservation scientist at the RSPB, said Cumbria was chosen because fungi which supported trees had transitioned to fungi found in grasslands that "have been grazed for hundreds of years".

From BBC

But she also noted that Mastercard and Visa have “two-sided networks across billions of consumers and hundreds of millions of merchants” that confer major incumbency advantages.

From MarketWatch

“We have been hearing from hundreds of stakeholders, academics, members of the public, other interested parties — and to be able to begin drafting charter language for the City Council to consider is pretty momentous.”

From Los Angeles Times

A by-election in Greater Manchester might seem somewhat distant from Scotland - several hundred miles away at best, across a border.

From BBC

Greenpeace has indicated its intention to appeal and has repeatedly stated it cannot pay hundreds of millions of dollars.

From Barron's

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