Hundred Definition & Meaning
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noun
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
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amounting to one hundred in number.
idioms
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keep it one hundred, to remain completely genuine or authentic; be totally honest or truthful. Also keep it 100
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
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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 )
Example Sentences
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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.
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“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.”
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A by-election in Greater Manchester might seem somewhat distant from Scotland - several hundred miles away at best, across a border.
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Greenpeace has indicated its intention to appeal and has repeatedly stated it cannot pay hundreds of millions of dollars.
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With investors already fearful about the more proximate risks posed by the hundreds of billions being spent on AI, this vision of the future spooked the markets further.
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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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