noun,pluralhun·dreds, (as after a numeral) hun·dred.
a cardinal number, ten times ten.
a symbol for this number, as 100 or C.
a set of this many persons or things: a hundred of the men.
hundreds,a number between 100 and 999, as in referring to an amount of money: Property loss was only in the hundreds of dollars.
Informal.
a hundred-dollar bill.
the sum of one hundred dollars.
(formerly) an administrative division of an English county.
a similar division in colonial Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia, and in present-day Delaware.
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.
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, Albanian qind, 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)