Word forms: plural hundredslanguage note: The plural form is hundred after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as 'several'or 'a few'.
1. number
Ahundred or onehundred is the number 100.
According to one official more than a hundred people have been arrested.
2. quantifier
If you refer to hundreds of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.
[emphasis]
Hundreds of tree species face extinction. [+ of]
Today you can buy hundreds of flavours of ice-cream.
You can also use hundreds as a pronoun.
Hundreds have been killed in the fighting and thousands made homeless.
3.
See a hundred per cent/one hundred percent
hundred in British English
(ˈhʌndrəd)
nounWord forms: plural-dreds or -dred
1.
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and ten; five score
See also number (sense 1)
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
5. (plural)
the 100 years of a specified century
in the sixteen hundreds
6.
something representing, represented by, or consisting of 100 units
7. mathematics
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
determiner
9.
a.
amounting to or approximately a hundred
a hundred reasons for that
b.
(as pronoun)
the hundred I chose
10.
amounting to 100 times a particular scientific quantity
a hundred volts
▶ Related prefix: hecto-
Word origin
Old English; related to Old Frisian hunderd, Old Norse hundrath, German hundert, Gothic hund, Latin centum, Greek hekaton
hundred in American English
(ˈhʌndrəd; often, ˈhʌndərd)
noun
1.
the cardinal number next above ninety-nine; ten times ten; 100; C
2.
a former division of an English county: orig., probably, 100 hides of land
3.
a similar division in the early U.S., now only in Delaware
adjective
4.
ten times ten
Word origin
ME < OE, akin to OS hunderod, ON hundrath < PGmc base *hund-, 100 (< IE base *kṃto- > Gr hekaton, L centum: see cent1, satem) + *rath-, to count (> Goth -rathjan) < IE base *rē-: see reason
Examples of 'hundred' in a sentence
hundred
One way you can slice hundreds of pounds off your annual energy bill is to switch supplier.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
As many as eight players have scored hundreds.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
You come off set and there will be hundreds of people hoping to catch a glimpse.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It can throw off borrowers by hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
You could of course win hundreds of millions but it is still irrational to buy a ticket.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Then, nearly two hundred grand was somehow spent on maintaining these three glorified vans.
The Sun (2016)
TINY plastic beads used in hundreds of household products are to be banned.
The Sun (2016)
A controversial choice, from so many hundreds of contenders?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Hundreds of trees, many of which were planted after the gales, are now reaching maturity.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They stole heating oil worth hundreds of pounds from a storage tank.
The Sun (2009)
Most people can save anything from tens to hundreds of pounds with minimal effort.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light.
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden (1911)
You needed hundreds of thousands of pounds to spare.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The copycat effect on other new mothers is worth hundreds of millions.
The Sun (2015)
This was the tale of two hundreds.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He had previously been as likely to get out in the nineties as score a hundred.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Some companies receive thousands of applications for a few hundred places.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
You must think one five hundred million times more above me than the other.
Jane Austen Emma (1815)
Such was his sight that he could see a hundred miles by night or day.
Barrett, Clive The Gods of Asgard (1989)
The figures released yesterday do not include the hundreds of pounds families can get from tax credits.
The Sun (2009)
Book lovers can pick up modern first editions for tens or hundreds of pounds.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It is no longer enough to service the insurance needs of a few hundred thousand cautious policyholders.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Over the years it brought in hundreds of millions of pounds.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Thousands of schools face having hundreds of millions of pounds cut from their budgets as punishment for being prudent.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Emergency workers arrived at the scene to be confronted by the enormous size of the landslide and hundreds of homeless families.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
If you smoke twenty cigarettes a day, you are spending hundreds of pounds a year.
Wallace, Louise M & Bundy, Christine Coping with Angina (1990)
They definitely use hundreds, because they may store 100 or more items in a single day.
Christianity Today (2000)
Elsewhere, the sheath had been in use for not hundreds, but thousands of years.
Katie Hickman COURTESANS (2003)
In other languages
hundred
British English: hundred /ˈhʌndrəd/ NUMBER
A hundred is the number 100.
American English: hundred
Arabic: مِئَةٌ
Brazilian Portuguese: cem
Chinese: 一百
Croatian: sto
Czech: sto
Danish: hundrede
Dutch: honderd
European Spanish: cien
Finnish: sata
French: cent
German: hundert
Greek: εκατό
Italian: cento
Japanese: 百
Korean: 100
Norwegian: hundre
Polish: sto
European Portuguese: cem
Romanian: sută
Russian: сто
Latin American Spanish: cien
Swedish: hundra
Thai: หนึ่งร้อย
Turkish: yüz sayı
Ukrainian: сто
Vietnamese: trăm
All related terms of 'hundred'
five hundred
a card game for three players, with 500 points for game
Four Hundred
the exclusive social set of a particular place
hundred days
the period between Napoleon Bonaparte's arrival in Paris from Elba on March 20, 1815, and his abdication on June 29, 1815
Hundred Flowers
the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “ Let a hundred flowers bloom , let a hundred schools of thought contend ”
hundred-percenter
an extreme or unjustified nationalist
hundred-year-old
of one hundred years of age
Hundred Years' War
the series of wars fought intermittently between England and France from 1337–1453: after early victories the English were expelled from all of France except Calais
the Four Hundred
the most exclusive or affluent social clique in a particular place
one-hundred share index
the average prices for shares of the largest, most actively traded, 100 companies on the London Stock Exchange
a hundred percent/one hundred percent
You can use a hundred percent or one hundred percent to emphasize that you agree completely with something or that it is completely right or wrong .
a hundred per cent/one hundred percent
You can use a hundred per cent or one hundred per cent to emphasize that you agree completely with something or that it is completely right or wrong .
a hundred and one a thousand and one a million and one
You can use expressions such as a hundred and one , a thousand and one , and a million and one to emphasize that you are talking about a large number of things or people.
a hundred and one/a million and one a thousand and one
You can use expressions such as a hundred and one , a thousand and one , and a million and one to emphasize that you are talking about a large number of things or people.
Chinese translation of 'hundred'
hundred
(ˈhʌndrəd)
num
百 (bǎi)
a or one hundred books/people/dollars一百本书(書)/个(個)人/美元 (yībǎi běn shū/gè rén/měiyuán)
a or one hundred per cent百分之百 (bǎi fēn zhī bǎi)
Derived Forms
hundredsn pl几(幾)百 (jǐbǎi)
⇒ He handed me hundreds of forms.他递给我几百张表格。 (Tā dì gěi wǒ jǐbǎi zhāng biǎogé.)