hundred
[ huhn-drid ]
/ ˈhʌn drɪd /
noun, plural hun·dreds, (as after a numeral) hun·dred.
adjective
amounting to one hundred in number.
Idioms for hundred
keep it one hundred, Slang.
to remain completely genuine or authentic; be totally honest or truthful.
Also keep it 100.
Origin of hundred
before 950; Middle English, Old English (cognate with Old Frisian
hundred, Old Saxon
hundred, Old Norse
hundrath, Dutch
honderd, German
hundert), equivalent to
hund “a hundred” (cognate with Gothic
hund; akin to Latin
centum, Greek
hekatón, Avestan
satəm, Sanskrit
śatám, Old Church Slavonic
sŭto, Lithuanian
šímtas) +
-red “tale, count,” from Germanic
rath, akin to Gothic
rathjō “number, account” (see
read1)
Words nearby hundred
Example sentences from the Web for hundreds
British Dictionary definitions for hundreds
hundred
/ (ˈhʌndrəd) /
noun plural -dreds or -dred
determiner
- amounting to or approximately a hundreda hundred reasons for that
- (as pronoun)the hundred I chose
amounting to 100 times a particular scientific quantity
a hundred volts
Other words from hundred
Related prefix: hecto-Word Origin for hundred
Old English; related to Old Frisian
hunderd, Old Norse
hundrath, German
hundert, Gothic
hund, Latin
centum, Greek
hekaton
Idioms and Phrases with hundreds
hundred
see by the dozen (hundred).