hundred
noun
, -dərd\
Definition of hundred
2 hundreds plural
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, -dərd- \
adjective or adverb
, -drətth \
adjective or noun
Synonyms & Antonyms for hundred
Synonyms
abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Antonyms
ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, taste, touch, trace
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And so, last week hundreds of children were left stranded on the first day of school in Mississippi, their parents taken away without their knowledge. — Breanna Edwards, Essence, "Kamala Harris Slams Trump's 'Campaign Of Terror' Against Immigrants," 12 Aug. 2019 Two other therapies that were approved to treat multi-drug resistant TB—bedaquiline in 2012 and delaminid in 2014—cost hundreds to thousands of dollars for a six-month supply. — Amy Maxmen, Scientific American, "Treatment for Extreme Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Wins U.S. Government Approval," 16 Aug. 2019 This poses a challenge that many scientists aren’t formally trained to tackle: Recruit hundreds of participants through elaborate marketing and networking. — Jordan Wilkerson, Dallas News, "UTD lab's marketing challenge: Recruit veterans for PTSD study," 15 Aug. 2019 Until that changes, each year hundreds of men and women, both the guilty and the innocent, will die, desperate and alone in their cells. — Andrew Cohen, The New Republic, "The Completely Predictable Death of Jeffrey Epstein," 11 Aug. 2019 And - after the largest targeted attack on Latinos in modern U.S. history - hundreds are arrested in workplace immigration raids. — NBC News, "Meet the Press - August 11, 2019," 11 Aug. 2019 But that’s in evolutionary time: Tens, even hundreds of thousands of years from now, says Baez-Ortega. — Megan Molteni, WIRED, "How a 6,000-Year-Old Dog Cancer Spread Around the World," 1 Aug. 2019 American Airlines, United and Southwest have canceled all flights on that aircraft - hundreds a day - into early November and October. — Hannah Sampson, chicagotribune.com, "Airfare is dropping — and you can enjoy the trend through September," 16 July 2019 There are some hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe. — Brian Resnick, Vox, "Scientists weighed all the mass in the Milky Way galaxy. It’s mind-boggling.," 27 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hundred.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
