Used in a Sentence

hundred

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hundred.

Editorial note

A museum is not a shop, but a conservation institution: it works on a hundred years perspective.

Examples12
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hundred gathered in one view.

noun

A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).

noun

(cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

noun

(by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hundred.

noun

(historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.

Example sentences

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A museum is not a shop, but a conservation institution: it works on a hundred years perspective.

2

Instead of having to give a $5,000-$10,000 retainer to traditional firms, it's just a few hundred dollars a month.

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That’s more than a megabyte for what technically should not take more than a few hundred bytes.

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If it did have a few hundred million actual regular users, that'd be really quite successful.

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Let's say that B is actually malicious, and has invented a hundred fake sites that he pretends to forward messages from.

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This is at least some hundred of years after the invention of the printing press.

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Sadly, the only way to be one hundred percent sure your data is private is to keep it in your head.

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We are a small team working on scaling our real time bidding platform to handle hundred of thousands of request per second.

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There are still hundred-hour adventure games and RPGs created today, just not very many.

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My net healthcare payments are a few hundred bucks a year for full coverage.

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You'll be pitched to by about a hundred or more Bangladeshi immigrants to come and have a fitted suit and some shirts made.

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Take the first paragraph, about how Google's homepage of just a textbox should really be a few hundred bytes instead of a megabyte.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hundred in a sentence?

A museum is not a shop, but a conservation institution: it works on a hundred years perspective.

What does hundred mean?

A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).

What part of speech is hundred?

hundred is commonly used as noun.