hundred: Meaning and Definition of

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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: a hundred of the men.
4. a number between 100 and 999, as in referring to an amount of money: Property loss was only in the hundreds of dollars.
1. a hundred-dollar bill.
2. 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
1. (in a mixed number) the position of the third digit to the left of the decimal point.
2. (in a whole number) the position of the third digit from the right.

1. amounting to one hundred in number.