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hundred

[ huhn-drid ]

noun

plural hundreds, (as after a numeral) 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.

hundred

/ 藞丑蕦苍诲谤蓹诲 /

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. the hundreds
    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
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

determiner

    1. amounting to or approximately a hundred

      a hundred reasons for that

    2. ( as pronoun )

      the hundred I chose

  1. amounting to 100 times a particular scientific quantity

    a hundred volts

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of hundred1

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 鈥渁 hundred鈥 (cognate with Gothic hund; akin to Latin centum, Albanian qind, Greek 丑别办补迟贸苍, Avestan 蝉补迟蓹尘, Sanskrit 艣补迟谩尘, Old Church Slavonic 蝉怒迟辞, Lithuanian 拧铆尘迟补蝉 ) + -red 鈥渢ale, count,鈥 from Germanic rath, akin to Gothic 谤补迟丑箩艒 鈥渘umber, account鈥 ( read 1 )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of hundred1

Old English; related to Old Frisian hunderd, Old Norse hundrath, German hundert, Gothic hund, Latin centum, Greek hekaton
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. 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) .
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Example Sentences

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The Trump administration is restoring visas for hundreds of foreign students who had their legal status abruptly terminated stoking panic among many who feared immediate deportation, government officials confirmed.

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In Scotland, where she usually runs, she says there are normally a few hundred people gathering to watch.

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He was talking about the hundreds of Venezuelan men expelled from the country without due process and sent to a prison in El Salvador, where, according to the administration, they should remain until they die.

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There will also be hundreds of members of the clergy, with each group having a specific dress code for the service.

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Police Scotland said it had a dedicated team gathering hundreds of pieces of evidence to build cases against those responsible for the attacks.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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