hundreds

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈhʌndɹədz/,/ˈhʌndɹɪdz/

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• Hyphenation:hun‧dreds

Noun

hundreds

1. pluralofhundred

   The infected number in thehundreds

   • 2022January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, inRAIL,number948,page43:

     Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland.Hundredswould have died.

Derived terms

• hundreds and thousands
• hundreds of thousands