Definitions for hundred

hundred hun·dred

Spelling: [huhn-drid]
IPA: /ˈhʌn drɪd/

Hundred is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in hundred (ddehnru).

Definitions for hundred

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 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

Examples for hundred

A running joke inside the tribe is that the group is like that club with a hundred people waiting outside to get in.

And of course, Rod, being Rod, goes for it a hundred percent; his mouth drops open and he says, ‘What?’

But unless he did something a hundred lives perhaps might be lost.

You wouldn't think it was a hundred yards back from the track, would you?

His photography has won more than a hundred awards, including the prestigious Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography.

There is not more than one chance in a hundred of its reaching its destination.

You can just as well get into the hundred million class as not, and I know it.

He carried around a hundred pounds too many most of his life, a great buffer of flesh between himself and the world.

A hundred ultra-wealthy liberal and conservative donors have taken over the political system.

His name was Cup and he too had inherited his land from a hundred other Cups who had gone before.

Word Value for hundred
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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