numeral / noun
hundred
HUN-drud/hˈʌndrʌd/
The number equal to ten times ten.
The tray contains a hundred beads arranged in ten rows of ten.
Etymology
Old English hundred denoted both the number and a counting of that many things. The selected sense preserves this numerical total: ten times ten.
In context
the six eight ten triangle so this is sixty and this is eighty the missing side is a hundred
More examples
- We counted to one hundred together.
- Hundreds of people joined the celebration.
- The store sold more than a hundred tickets.
Forms
hundred · hundreds