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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hun•dred•fold (hun′drid fōld′),USA pronunciation adj. - a hundred times as great or as much.
- comprising a hundred parts or members.
adv. - in a hundredfold measure.
- Middle English hundredfald. See hundred, -fold 1125–75
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024hun•dred /ˈhʌndrɪd/USA pronunciation n., pl. -dreds, (as after a numeral) -dred, adj. n. [countable] - a cardinal number, ten times ten.
- a symbol for this number, such as 100 or C.
- hundreds, [plural]
- a number between 100 and 999, such as in referring to an amount of money:We spent hundreds extra on those options for the new car.
- a generally large number:Hundreds came to the funeral.
- Informal Termsa hundred-dollar bill.
adj. [ after a number and before a noun] - amounting to 100 in number:Two hundred dollars is a lot to pay.
hun•dred•fold, adv. hun•dredth, adj., n. [countable] The word hundred and a few other words of higher numbers like thousand, million, and billion stay in the singular form when a number comes before them, even when that number is greater than one:two hundred people, three million soldiers, four thousand planes, five billion dollars.But if no number comes before these words they may be plural:hundreds of people, millions of soldiers, thousands of planes, billions of dollars. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hun•dred (hun′drid),USA pronunciation n., pl. -dreds, (as after a numeral) -dred, adj. n. - 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.
- Mathematics 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 Terms
- a hundred-dollar bill.
- the sum of one hundred dollars.
- American History, Government(formerly) an administrative division of an English county.
- American History, Governmenta similar division in colonial Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia, and in present-day Delaware.
- MathematicsAlso called hundred's place.
- Mathematics(in a mixed number) the position of the third digit to the left of the decimal point.
- Mathematics(in a whole number) the position of the third digit from the right.
adj. - amounting to one hundred in number.
- bef. 950; Middle English, Old English (cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hundred, Old Norse hundrath, Dutch honderd, German hundert), equivalent. to hund 100 (cognate with Gothic hund; akin to Latin centum, Greek hekatón, Avestan satəm, Sanskrit śatám, Old Church Slavonic sùto, Lithuanian ŝímtas) + -red tale, count, akin to Gothic rathjan to reckon (see read1)
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