Definitions for hundreds

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hundreds hun·dred

Spelling: [huhn-drid]

IPA: /ˈhʌn drɪd/

Hundreds is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in hundreds (ddehnrsu).

Definitions for hundreds

noun

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:
4. hundreds, a number between 100 and 999, as in referring to an amount of money:
5. Informal. a hundred-dollar bill. 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. Mathematics. (in a mixed number) the position of the third digit to the left of the decimal point. (in a whole number) the position of the third digit from the right.

Idioms

1. keep it one hundred, Slang. to remain completely genuine or authentic; be totally honest or truthful. Also, keep it 100.

adjective

1. amounting to one hundred in number.

Origin of hundreds

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

Examples for hundreds

Cricket is a sport enjoyed by hundreds of millions around the globe, mainly in former British colonies.

There are hundreds of them who steal because they don't get enough to eat.

She had been mingling with hundreds of boys and girls in high school.

Why, there are hundreds and hundreds of them--and the smallest worth not less than fifty pounds!

She looked over the cliff down an appalling depth of hundreds of feet.

hundreds of years ago the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street.

The narrowest and deepest gorge is hundreds of feet deep in the shale.

Over the next six months hundreds of same-sex couples married.

hundreds of cops saluting as the bodies were rolled out with a full escort by highway patrol.

Bad weather is a feature of hundreds of flights across the world every day.