What part of speech is hundreds?

Hundreds can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. hundreds is a noun, plural of hundred.

Inflections

Noun

What does hundreds mean?

Definitions

Noun

hundred - A hundred- dollar bill.
hundred - An administrative subdivision in southern English counties and in other countries.
hundred - A hundred runs scored by a batsman.

Examples of hundreds

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1. noun After training, Bush kept flying, racking up hundreds of hours in F-102 jets.
2. noun The frequent reports from Algeria about the murders of hundreds of civilians in one village or another by other Algerians have nothing to do with Israel.
3. noun The total number of casualties from hundreds of suicide murders within Israel in the last three years is much smaller than those due to car accidents.
4. noun Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that someone would openly stay in a well-known address in Teheran, hosted by the Iranian Government and financed by it, executing one atrocity after another in Spain or in France, killing hundreds of innocent people, accepting responsibility for the crimes, promising in public TV interviews to do more of the same, while the Government of Iran issues public condemnations of his acts but continues to host him, invite him to official functions and treat him as a great dignitary.
5. noun Hundreds of people are feared dead in Mississippi, and the Louisiana city of New Orleans is badly flooded.
6. noun 'Hundreds dead'
7. noun "You're going to be looking at hundreds dead along the coast," a state official said.
8. noun The town's death toll may be "in the hundreds", municipal spokesman Vincent Creel said.
9. noun He has encyclopedic knowledge of hundreds of different Supreme Court cases, and he can recite details from memory.
10. noun Relief agencies are trying to help hundreds of thousands of displaced people while authorities have vowed to restore security in New Orleans following a breakdown of law and order.
11. noun It is a competition, and YOU will be competing with hundreds of thousands of others, from all over the world, for a place in the line up.
12. noun But I've done hundreds of dog introductions myself (another place, I don't work here), and owners can have unrealistic expectations and views of what they see when their dogs meet other dogs.
13. noun There were hundreds of taxis at the airport, all touting for business.
14. noun Hundreds of people work in this factory.
15. noun Hundreds of people were waiting outside the ticket office.
Sentence  
noun
After training, Bush kept flying, racking up hundreds of hours in F-102 jets.
The frequent reports from Algeria about the murders of hundreds of civilians in one village or another by other Algerians have nothing to do with Israel.
The total number of casualties from hundreds of suicide murders within Israel in the last three years is much smaller than those due to car accidents.
Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that someone would openly stay in a well-known address in Teheran, hosted by the Iranian Government and financed by it, executing one atrocity after another in Spain or in France, killing hundreds of innocent people, accepting responsibility for the crimes, promising in public TV interviews to do more of the same, while the Government of Iran issues public condemnations of his acts but continues to host him, invite him to official functions and treat him as a great dignitary.
Hundreds of people are feared dead in Mississippi, and the Louisiana city of New Orleans is badly flooded.
'Hundreds dead'
"You're going to be looking at hundreds dead along the coast," a state official said.
The town's death toll may be "in the hundreds", municipal spokesman Vincent Creel said.
He has encyclopedic knowledge of hundreds of different Supreme Court cases, and he can recite details from memory.
Relief agencies are trying to help hundreds of thousands of displaced people while authorities have vowed to restore security in New Orleans following a breakdown of law and order.
It is a competition, and YOU will be competing with hundreds of thousands of others, from all over the world, for a place in the line up.
But I've done hundreds of dog introductions myself (another place, I don't work here), and owners can have unrealistic expectations and views of what they see when their dogs meet other dogs.
There were hundreds of taxis at the airport, all touting for business.
Hundreds of people work in this factory.
Hundreds of people were waiting outside the ticket office.

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