hun·dred (h?n?dr?d)n. pl. hundred or hun·dreds 1. The cardinal number equal to 10 × 10 or 102.2. The number in the third position left of the decimal point in an Arabic numeral.3. A one-hundred-dollar bill.4. hundreds The numbers between 100 and 999: an attendance figure estimated in the hundreds.5. An administrative division of some counties in England and the United States.[Middle English, from Old English; see dekm? in Indo-European roots.]hun?dred adj.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.hundred (?h?ndr?d) n, pl -dreds or -dred1. (Mathematics) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and ten; five score. See also number12. (Mathematics) a numeral, 100, C, etc, representing this number3. (often plural) a large but unspecified number, amount, or quantity: there will be hundreds of people there. 4. the hundreds a. the numbers 100 to 109: the temperature was in the hundreds. b. the numbers 100 to 199: his score went into the hundreds. c. the numbers 100 to 999: the price was in the hundreds. 5. (plural) the 100 years of a specified century: in the sixteen hundreds. 6. something representing, represented by, or consisting of 100 units7. (Mathematics) maths the position containing a digit representing that number followed by two zeros: in 4376, 3 is in the hundred’s place. 8. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an ancient division of a county in England, Ireland, and parts of the USdeterminer9. a. amounting to or approximately a hundred: a hundred reasons for that. b. (as pronoun): the hundred I chose. 10. (General Physics) amounting to 100 times a particular scientific quantity: a hundred volts. [Old English; related to Old Frisian hunderd, Old Norse hundrath, German hundert, Gothic hund, Latin centum, Greek hekaton]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014hun?dred (?h?n dr?d) n., pl. -dreds, (as after a numeral) -dred, n. 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. a number between 100 and 999, as in referring to an amount of money. b. a generally large number: Hundreds came to the funeral. 5. a hundred-dollar bill. 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 hun?dred’s place`. a. (in a mixed number) the position of the third digit to the left of the decimal point. b. (in a whole number) the position of the third digit from the right. adj. 9. amounting to 100 in number. [before 950; Middle English, Old English (c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon hundred, Middle High German hundert, Old Norse hundrath) =hund 100 (c. Gothic hund; akin to Latin centum, Greek hekatón, Skt ?atám) + -red tale, count, akin to Gothic rathjan to reckon (see read1)] Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.hundredA hundred or one hundred is the number 100.You can say that there are a hundred things or one hundred things.Be Careful!Don’t say that there are ‘hundred’ things.Don’t add ‘-s’ to the word hundred when you put another number in front of it.For numbers greater than 100, most speakers add and before pronouncing the second part of the number, but speakers of American English sometimes leave out the and. For example, 370 is expressed as three hundred and seventy in British English and sometimes as three hundred seventy in American English.