American English pronunciation

How to pronounce hundred

IPA transcription: ['hʌndɹəd]

Pronunciation variants: ['hʌndɹəd]['hʌndɹɪd]['hʌnɚd]['hʌndɚd]

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Noun

Adjective

  • being ten more than ninety

Usage examples

  • Something deep beneath the earth shifted, sending vibrations strong enough to register on earthquake detection mechanisms hundreds of miles away.
  • It is Mr Thierry Benoit’s turn to talk in support of amendment number eight hundred and forty-three.
  • Hundreds must have seen it, and taken it for a falling star.
  • "Serse" disappeared from the stage for almost two hundred years.
  • A hundred nuns stampeded the Vatican.
  • The file size was only two hundred bytes.
  • Hundreds of observers saw the flame that night and the night after.
  • Four Fortune Five Hundred companies are headquartered in this city.
  • Two hundred years after founding, the town got the right to mint its own coin.
  • As long as there is water in a cooking pot, the temperature cannot rise above a hundred degrees Celsius.