/hun"drid/ , n. , pl. hundreds , ( as after a numeral ) hundred , adj.
n.
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.
a. a hundred-dollar bill.
b. 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 . Math.
a. (in a mixed number) the position of the third digit to the left of the decimal point.
b. (in a whole number) the position of the third digit from the right.
adj.
9. amounting to one hundred in number.
[ bef. 950; ME, OE (c. OFris hundred, OS hundred, ON hundrath, D honderd, G hundert ), equiv. to hund 100 (c. Goth hund; akin to L centum, Gk hekatón, Avestan satam, Skt satám, OCS suto, Lith šímtas ) + -red tale, count, akin to Goth rathjan to reckon (see READ 1 ) ]