hundredth adjectivehundredth noun
hundredhun‧dred /ˈhʌndrɪd/ ●●● S2 W2 number, noun (plural hundred or hundreds) 
WORD ORIGINhundred
Origin:
Old EnglishEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a hundred years
- two hundred miles
- A few hundred feet down is a tarred road.
- The best thing they could do was comb the hundreds of pubs in the area.
- The Cardwell, all by itself, according to Bill Stultz, weighed a hundred pounds.
- The decision closes the doors on to hundreds of potential appeals by convicted drink-drivers.
- The houses were in fact built in the eighteen hundreds to a design by Sydney Smirke for Bethlem Hospital.
- The impulse to stop arises after you have gone only a few hundred yards.
- The last hundred feet of elevation form a near-vertical cliff, effectively turning the mesa into an imposing dark fortress.
- The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years.
Longman Language Activatora very large number of people or things
a lot of things or people - use this when you want to emphasize that you are talking about a very large number. You can use this informally when the number is actually less than a hundred: · Hundreds were left homeless by the flood.hundreds/thousands of: · I've seen that movie hundreds of times.· It will cost thousands of dollars to repair the house.· From the 1880s to the early 1900s thousands of workers came to Hawaii from Japan.hundreds and hundreds/thousands and thousandsalso hundreds upon hundreds/thousands upon thousands: · The temple was filled with hundreds and hundreds of lanterns.by the hundreds/thousands: · Starving animals in the region are dying by the thousands.
use this when you want to emphasize that you are talking about something important: · We have seen a great many changes in the last twenty years.· There are still a great many questions that remain unanswered.a great many of: · The fire had destroyed a great many of the family's possessions.
an extremely large number of things or people, that cannot be counted or imagined: · The mountains around the lake are filled with countless hiking trails.· There are innumerable variations on the folktale, but the basic story is the same throughout Europe.countless millions (=an extremely large group of people): · His music has brought joy to countless millions.
informal an extremely large number of things of different types - use this especially when you think there are too many things: · When my parents come to stay with us, they bring everything but the kitchen sink!· Chatham refused to participate in what he called "everything but the kitchen sink" art shows.
when something happens many times · I often see her walking past with the children on the way to school.· Dad wasn't often angry so I knew something terrible must have happened.quite often · "Have you ever been to the China Moon Café?" "Yes -- we go there quite often."not very often · I have a cell phone, but I don't use it very often.it's not often (that) somebody does something · It's not often that you see a grass snake these days -- they've become quite rare.· It's not often I get the chance to go to the movies.
spoken if you do something a lot , you often do it: · It's nice to meet you. Wendy's talked about you a lot.· I used to walk a lot, but I've been very lazy recently.quite a lot British: · She goes abroad on business quite a lot.
often - used especially in writing or more formal speech: · Passengers complain that trains are frequently cancelled.· You have to be willing to change jobs frequently if you want to get to the top in business.· Frequently, she would find herself gazing out of the window lost in thought.
use this to emphasize that someone did something many times: · Graham's doctor had repeatedly warned him not to work so hard.· Max was punched and kicked repeatedly as he lay on the ground.· Al Gore has stated repeatedly, that the American economy is dependent upon a healthy environment.
use this to emphasize that the same thing has happened many times: · She kept asking the same question again and again.· Again and again I was thrown upwards from my bunk as the ship battled through the storm.
spoken say this when you are emphasizing that someone has done something many times in the past: · It was a sound he'd heard thousands of times before.· My grandmother must have spoken to him hundreds of times but, surprisingly, she didn't know his name.· I've been rejected hundreds of times, but if you don't try you never will get a job, will you?
if someone has done something many times , they have done it often: somebody has/had done something many times (before): · I had walked down this road many times before, but somehow today it seemed different.as somebody has/had done many times (before): · The woman upstairs shouted down at us and threatened to call the police, as she had done many times before.· I looked down at the town, as I had done so many times as a young man, and remembered the people I had known there.
WORD SETSadd, verbaddition, nounArabic numeral, nounarithmetic progression, nounbi-, prefixbillion, numbercalculate, verbcalculation, nouncardinal, nouncardinal number, nouncoefficient, nouncommon denominator, nounconstant, nouncube, verbcube root, nounD, noundecimal, noundecimal, adjectivedecimal point, noundemi-, prefixdenominator, noundigit, noundivide, verbdividend, noundivisible, adjectivedivision, noundivisor, noundouble-digit, adjectivedouble figures, nouneight, numbereighteen, numbereighth, adjectiveeighty, numbereleven, numberequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nouneven, adjectiveexponent, nounfactor, nounfactor, verbfactorial, nounfifteen, numberfifth, nounfifty, numberfig., figure, nounfive, numberforty, numberfour, numberfourteen, numberfourth, nounfraction, noungeometric progression, noungross, nounHCF, hundred, numberimproper fraction, nounindivisible, adjectiveinfinity, nouninteger, nounL, nounlogarithm, nounlowest common denominator, nounM, nounmedian, nounmedian, adjectivemillion, numbermultiple, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, noun-nd, suffixnegative, adjectivenine, numbernineteen, numberninety, numberninth, adjectiveNo., nos., nothing, pronounnought, numbernumber, nounnumeral, nounnumerator, nounnumerical, adjectiveO, nounoblique, nounone, numberordinal number, nounpi, nounplot, verbplus, prepositionpoint, nounpositive, adjectiveprime number, nounproduct, nounproper fraction, nounproportion, nounquadr-, prefixquadrillion, numberquadruple, adjectivequotient, noun-rd, suffixroman numeral, nounroot, nounround, adjectivescore, numbersecond, numberserial number, nounset, nounsingle figures, nounsix, numbersixteen, numbersixty, numbersquare, nounsquare, verbsquared, adjectivesquare root, noun-st, suffixsubtract, verbsum, nountake, verbten, numbertenth, adjectivetertiary, adjectivetetra-, prefixthirteen, numberthirty, numberthousand, numberthree, numberthree-quarter, adjectivethreescore, numbertreble, determinertri-, prefixtrillion, numbertwelve, numbertwenty, numbertwice, adverbunit, nounV, nounvulgar fraction, nounwhole number, nounX, nounzero, number
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
I make nine hundred dollars a week. a journey of 15 hundred miles Hundreds of people were reported killed or wounded.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES This old truck is good for another 100,000 miles. military equipment worth many millions of dollars The bill came to several hundred pounds.
I make nine hundred dollars a week. a journey of 15 hundred miles Hundreds of people were reported killed or wounded. This old truck is good for another 100,000 miles. (=in very large numbers) People flocked in their thousands to greet their new princess.
People flocked in their thousands to greet their new princess. military equipment worth many millions of dollars (=a complete hundred etc)
The bill came to several hundred pounds.PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a cool million/hundred thousand etc► one in every three/two in every hundred etc► to the nearest £10/hundred etc
1the number 100: - I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.
- I agree with you a hundred percent.
- Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
- All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
- It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
- She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
- The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
- There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
- Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
- Everyone on the team gave a hundred percent.
- Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
- All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
- It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
- No wonder the others felt he was not one hundred percent reliable anymore.
- She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
- The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
- There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
- Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
- All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
- And, of course, the cost - that ran into thousands.
- Last night, it was feared that the cost of the disaster could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
- Others take a proportion of the cost of the house and, consequently, the fee can run into thousands.
- Potentially the number of claims could run into thousands: the inventory covers only part of the national collections.
- The number of deaths could run into hundreds.
- There are certainly hundreds of people who could be involved and the number could even run into thousands.
- These could run into thousands of pounds is a helicopter is involved.
The tree was probably a hundred years old.two/three/four etc hundred I make nine hundred dollars a week. a journey of 15 hundred mileshundreds of people/years/pounds etc Hundreds of people were reported killed or wounded.2a very large number of things or peoplea hundred They’ve had this argument a hundred times before.hundreds of something He’s had hundreds of girlfriends.3a/one hundred percent spoken a)completely: I’m not a hundred percent sure where she lives. b) British English completely well: I’m still not really feeling a hundred percent.4give a hundred percent (also give a hundred and ten percent) to do everything you can in order to achieve something: Everyone on the team gave a hundred percent.5[countable] a piece of paper money that is worth 100 dollars or 100 pounds—hundredth adjective: her hundredth birthday—hundredth noun [countable]hundredth adjectivehundredth noun
hundredhun‧dred /ˈhʌndrɪd/ ●●● S2 W2 number, noun (plural hundred or hundreds) WORD ORIGINhundred
Origin:
Old EnglishEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a hundred years
- two hundred miles
- A few hundred feet down is a tarred road.
- The best thing they could do was comb the hundreds of pubs in the area.
- The Cardwell, all by itself, according to Bill Stultz, weighed a hundred pounds.
- The decision closes the doors on to hundreds of potential appeals by convicted drink-drivers.
- The houses were in fact built in the eighteen hundreds to a design by Sydney Smirke for Bethlem Hospital.
- The impulse to stop arises after you have gone only a few hundred yards.
- The last hundred feet of elevation form a near-vertical cliff, effectively turning the mesa into an imposing dark fortress.
- The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years.
Longman Language Activatora very large number of people or things
a lot of things or people - use this when you want to emphasize that you are talking about a very large number. You can use this informally when the number is actually less than a hundred: · Hundreds were left homeless by the flood.hundreds/thousands of: · I've seen that movie hundreds of times.· It will cost thousands of dollars to repair the house.· From the 1880s to the early 1900s thousands of workers came to Hawaii from Japan.hundreds and hundreds/thousands and thousandsalso hundreds upon hundreds/thousands upon thousands: · The temple was filled with hundreds and hundreds of lanterns.by the hundreds/thousands: · Starving animals in the region are dying by the thousands.
use this when you want to emphasize that you are talking about something important: · We have seen a great many changes in the last twenty years.· There are still a great many questions that remain unanswered.a great many of: · The fire had destroyed a great many of the family's possessions.
an extremely large number of things or people, that cannot be counted or imagined: · The mountains around the lake are filled with countless hiking trails.· There are innumerable variations on the folktale, but the basic story is the same throughout Europe.countless millions (=an extremely large group of people): · His music has brought joy to countless millions.
informal an extremely large number of things of different types - use this especially when you think there are too many things: · When my parents come to stay with us, they bring everything but the kitchen sink!· Chatham refused to participate in what he called "everything but the kitchen sink" art shows.
when something happens many times · I often see her walking past with the children on the way to school.· Dad wasn't often angry so I knew something terrible must have happened.quite often · "Have you ever been to the China Moon Café?" "Yes -- we go there quite often."not very often · I have a cell phone, but I don't use it very often.it's not often (that) somebody does something · It's not often that you see a grass snake these days -- they've become quite rare.· It's not often I get the chance to go to the movies.
spoken if you do something a lot , you often do it: · It's nice to meet you. Wendy's talked about you a lot.· I used to walk a lot, but I've been very lazy recently.quite a lot British: · She goes abroad on business quite a lot.
often - used especially in writing or more formal speech: · Passengers complain that trains are frequently cancelled.· You have to be willing to change jobs frequently if you want to get to the top in business.· Frequently, she would find herself gazing out of the window lost in thought.
use this to emphasize that someone did something many times: · Graham's doctor had repeatedly warned him not to work so hard.· Max was punched and kicked repeatedly as he lay on the ground.· Al Gore has stated repeatedly, that the American economy is dependent upon a healthy environment.
use this to emphasize that the same thing has happened many times: · She kept asking the same question again and again.· Again and again I was thrown upwards from my bunk as the ship battled through the storm.
spoken say this when you are emphasizing that someone has done something many times in the past: · It was a sound he'd heard thousands of times before.· My grandmother must have spoken to him hundreds of times but, surprisingly, she didn't know his name.· I've been rejected hundreds of times, but if you don't try you never will get a job, will you?
if someone has done something many times , they have done it often: somebody has/had done something many times (before): · I had walked down this road many times before, but somehow today it seemed different.as somebody has/had done many times (before): · The woman upstairs shouted down at us and threatened to call the police, as she had done many times before.· I looked down at the town, as I had done so many times as a young man, and remembered the people I had known there.
WORD SETSadd, verbaddition, nounArabic numeral, nounarithmetic progression, nounbi-, prefixbillion, numbercalculate, verbcalculation, nouncardinal, nouncardinal number, nouncoefficient, nouncommon denominator, nounconstant, nouncube, verbcube root, nounD, noundecimal, noundecimal, adjectivedecimal point, noundemi-, prefixdenominator, noundigit, noundivide, verbdividend, noundivisible, adjectivedivision, noundivisor, noundouble-digit, adjectivedouble figures, nouneight, numbereighteen, numbereighth, adjectiveeighty, numbereleven, numberequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nouneven, adjectiveexponent, nounfactor, nounfactor, verbfactorial, nounfifteen, numberfifth, nounfifty, numberfig., figure, nounfive, numberforty, numberfour, numberfourteen, numberfourth, nounfraction, noungeometric progression, noungross, nounHCF, hundred, numberimproper fraction, nounindivisible, adjectiveinfinity, nouninteger, nounL, nounlogarithm, nounlowest common denominator, nounM, nounmedian, nounmedian, adjectivemillion, numbermultiple, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, noun-nd, suffixnegative, adjectivenine, numbernineteen, numberninety, numberninth, adjectiveNo., nos., nothing, pronounnought, numbernumber, nounnumeral, nounnumerator, nounnumerical, adjectiveO, nounoblique, nounone, numberordinal number, nounpi, nounplot, verbplus, prepositionpoint, nounpositive, adjectiveprime number, nounproduct, nounproper fraction, nounproportion, nounquadr-, prefixquadrillion, numberquadruple, adjectivequotient, noun-rd, suffixroman numeral, nounroot, nounround, adjectivescore, numbersecond, numberserial number, nounset, nounsingle figures, nounsix, numbersixteen, numbersixty, numbersquare, nounsquare, verbsquared, adjectivesquare root, noun-st, suffixsubtract, verbsum, nountake, verbten, numbertenth, adjectivetertiary, adjectivetetra-, prefixthirteen, numberthirty, numberthousand, numberthree, numberthree-quarter, adjectivethreescore, numbertreble, determinertri-, prefixtrillion, numbertwelve, numbertwenty, numbertwice, adverbunit, nounV, nounvulgar fraction, nounwhole number, nounX, nounzero, number
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I make nine hundred dollars a week. a journey of 15 hundred miles Hundreds of people were reported killed or wounded.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES This old truck is good for another 100,000 miles. military equipment worth many millions of dollars The bill came to several hundred pounds.
I make nine hundred dollars a week. a journey of 15 hundred miles Hundreds of people were reported killed or wounded. This old truck is good for another 100,000 miles. (=in very large numbers) People flocked in their thousands to greet their new princess.
People flocked in their thousands to greet their new princess. military equipment worth many millions of dollars (=a complete hundred etc)
The bill came to several hundred pounds.PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a cool million/hundred thousand etc► one in every three/two in every hundred etc► to the nearest £10/hundred etc
1the number 100: - I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.
- I agree with you a hundred percent.
- Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
- All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
- It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
- She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
- The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
- There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
- Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
- Everyone on the team gave a hundred percent.
- Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
- All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
- It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
- No wonder the others felt he was not one hundred percent reliable anymore.
- She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
- The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
- There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
- Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
- All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
- And, of course, the cost - that ran into thousands.
- Last night, it was feared that the cost of the disaster could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
- Others take a proportion of the cost of the house and, consequently, the fee can run into thousands.
- Potentially the number of claims could run into thousands: the inventory covers only part of the national collections.
- The number of deaths could run into hundreds.
- There are certainly hundreds of people who could be involved and the number could even run into thousands.
- These could run into thousands of pounds is a helicopter is involved.
The tree was probably a hundred years old.two/three/four etc hundred I make nine hundred dollars a week. a journey of 15 hundred mileshundreds of people/years/pounds etc Hundreds of people were reported killed or wounded.2a very large number of things or peoplea hundred They’ve had this argument a hundred times before.hundreds of something He’s had hundreds of girlfriends.3a/one hundred percent spoken a)completely: I’m not a hundred percent sure where she lives. b) British English completely well: I’m still not really feeling a hundred percent.4give a hundred percent (also give a hundred and ten percent) to do everything you can in order to achieve something: Everyone on the team gave a hundred percent.5[countable] a piece of paper money that is worth 100 dollars or 100 pounds—hundredth adjective: her hundredth birthday—hundredth noun [countable]