I. ˈhəndrə̇d, ÷ -ndə(r)d, rapid -nə(r)d, dial or substand -nə(r)t noun
( plural hundreds or hundred )
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old Frisian hundred, hunderd hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Old Norse hundrath; all from a prehistoric West Germanic-North Germanic compound whose constituents are akin respectively to Old English hund hundred and Gothic ga rathjan to count; akin to Old High German hunt hundred, Old Saxon & Gothic hund, Latin centum, Greek he katon, Sanskrit śatam; all from a prehistoric word derived from the root of English ten — more at ten , reason
1. : 10 tens : twice 50 : five twenties : five score : the square of ten — see number table
2.
a. : 100 units or objects
a total of a hundred
b. : a group or set of 100
arranged by hundreds
3.
a. : the numerable quantity symbolized by the arabic numerals 100
b. : the letter C
4. : the number occupying the position three to the left of the decimal point in the Arabic notation (as 9 in the number 2968) — usually used in plural
5.
a. : any of various British units of quantity for commercial items (as for 120 boards, 120 nails, or 140 pecks or 35 bushels of lime)
b. : hundredweight
6.
a. : a hundred-pound note
b. : a hundred-dollar bill
7.
a. : a division of a county originally English but later established also in certain British possessions and formerly having its own local court
b. : the body of landholders and residents of a hundred
8. hundreds plural — used in combination to designate a specified century
the early fifteen- hundreds
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- by the hundred
II. adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from hundred, n.
: being 100 in number
a hundred years
— usually preceded by a, an, or a numeral (as one, four )