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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
/ ˈʌԻə /
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
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of hundred1
yvlog 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
The act's overall impact is debateable but it has been credited with creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, particularly in the textiles sector.
“On its second anniversary, Measure ULA is already producing hundreds of units of affordable housing, protecting tens of thousands of renters and creating thousands of construction jobs,” Donlin said.
The county is expected to owe hundreds of millions of dollars in interest on those bonds, which have to be paid off by 2051.
The most recent rally - last weekend - attracted several hundred thousand people, at the least.
In 2016, the first review of the national DNA database was ordered, resulting in a list of hundreds of names of potentially linked people.
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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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