hundreds
HUN-druhdz/ˈhʌndɹədz/
- 1Plural of hundred.
Hundreds of letters arrived in the weeks after the broadcast.
The wildfire burned through hundreds of acres before crews contained it.
Note
The plural does more than count. Paired with the number itself, it names a large but vague quantity: the infected number in the hundreds means no exact figure, only the scale. It also pluralizes each noun use of hundred: a wallet of hundred-dollar bills, the old administrative hundreds of southern English counties, or a batsman's hundreds, each an innings of a hundred runs or more.
hundreds is a form of hundred
hundred, noun: A banknote with a face value of 100, such as a hundred-dollar bill or a hundred-euro note. Full entry
- Forms
- hundredhundreds plural
- Spelling
- hundred → hundreds: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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