Dictionary  hun•dredPronunciation: (hun'drid), [key] —n., pl. -dreds, (as after a numeral) -dred, —adj. —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: a hundred of the men. 4. hundreds,a number between 100 and 999, as in referring to an amount of money: Property loss was only in the hundreds of dollars. 5. Informal. a. a hundred-dollar bill. b. 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. Math. 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. amounting to one hundred in number. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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