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hun·dred (hun′drəd; often, -dərd)

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

Etymology: ME < OE, akin to OS hunderod, ON hundrath < PGmc base *hund-, 100 (< IE base *kṃto- > Gr hekaton, L centum: see cent, satem) + *rath-, to count (> Goth -rathjan) < IE base *rē-: see reason

adjective

ten times ten

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hundred

n.

ten tens, five score, century; see number 1.


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hundred Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • advertize: The CEMS Placement team has close links with the business community and advertize hundreds of work placements every year.

Converse of subject

  • surround: At once, the patrol was surrounded by hundreds of other young people, all offering their cards for checking.

Adjective modifier

  • many: Cheers for your many hundreds of emails, sorry I couldn't use them all.

Modifies a noun

  • year: There are enough world phosphate and potash stocks to last over two hundreds years.

Noun used with modifier

  • year: HSBC Firework Safety Each year hundreds of people are injured by fireworks.

Preposition: of

  • thousand: There were hundreds of thousands of Scots sold into slavery during Colonial America.
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Quamdiu centum viui remanserint, nuncquam Anglorum dominio aliquatenus volumus subjugari. As long as one hundred of us shall remain alive, we shall never consent to subject ourselves in any degree to English dominion.

-Anonymous

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo

The aimof everyartist istoarrest motion, which islife, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

-Faulkner,William Harrison

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