American English pronunciation
How to pronounce hundred
IPA transcription: ['hʌndɹəd]
Pronunciation variants: ['hʌndɹəd]['hʌndɹɪd]['hʌnɚd]['hʌndɚd]
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Noun
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ten 10s
Adjective
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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.