Meanings
plural hundred thousands
- The cardinal number 100,000.
Mr. Greenshields was the contractor selected to build the embankment, and over a hundred thousand tons of marl and moss compacted with brushwood were used in its construction.
1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, pages 486-4871 more example
Madame Chevalier, who with a word could have caused her aged mother to have been brought in triumph to Petersburg, and supported there in ease and abundance; who reckoned her fortune by hundred thousands of rubles, sent her indigent parent two hundred rubles.
1802, Augustus von Kotzebue, translated by Benjamin Beresford, The Most Remarkable Year in the Life of Augustus von Kotzebue; […], volume III, London: […] [F]or Richard Phillips, […] [b]y T[homas] Gillet, […], →OCLC, page 109Synonyms: lakh, one hundred thousand
Synonyms & antonyms
numeralThe cardinal number 100,000.
More synonyms by meaning
adjective(in Roman numerals, C written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 100,000 items or units
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Afrikaans honderdduisend
- honderdduisend100,000 — see also lakh
Arabic مِائَة أَلْف
- مِائَة أَلْف (miʔat ʔalf)100,000 — see also lakh
Chinese Mandarin 十萬 /十万
- 十萬 /十万 (shíwàn)100,000 — see also lakh
Dutch honderdduizend, ton
- honderdduizend100,000 — see also lakh
- ton100,000 — see also lakh
Esperanto cent mil
- cent mil100,000 — see also lakh
Finnish satatuhatta
- satatuhatta100,000 — see also lakh
French cent-mille
- cent-mille100,000 — see also lakh
German hunderttausend, einhunderttausend
- hunderttausend100,000 — see also lakh
- einhunderttausend100,000 — see also lakh
Hindi लाख
- लाख (lākh)100,000 — see also lakh
Hungarian százezer
- százezer100,000 — see also lakh
Icelandic hundrað þúsund
- hundrað þúsund100,000 — see also lakh
Indonesian seratus ribu, cepeceng
- seratus ribu100,000 — see also lakh
- cepeceng100,000 — see also lakh
Irish céad míle
- céad míle100,000 — see also lakh
Italian centomila
- centomila100,000 — see also lakh
Japanese 十万
- 十万 (jūman)100,000 — see also lakh
Korean 십만
- 십만 (simman)100,000 — see also lakh
Malay ratus ribu, keti
- ratus ribu100,000 — see also lakh
- keti100,000 — see also lakh
Norwegian Bokmål hundretusen
- hundretusen100,000 — see also lakh
Polish sto tysięcy
- sto tysięcy100,000 — see also lakh
Portuguese cem mil
- cem mil100,000 — see also lakh
Punjabi ਲੱਖ, لَکّھ
- ਲੱਖ (lakkha)100,000 — see also lakh
- لَکّھ (lakkh)100,000 — see also lakh
Romanian o sută de mii
- o sută de mii100,000 — see also lakh
Russian сто ты́сяч
- сто ты́сяч (sto týsjač)100,000 — see also lakh
Spanish cien mil
- cien mil100,000 — see also lakh
Swahili laki
- laki100,000 — see also lakh
Tagalog yuta
- yuta100,000 — see also lakh
Tamil லட்சம்
- லட்சம் (laṭcam)100,000 — see also lakh
Thai แสน
- แสน (sɛ̌ɛn)100,000 — see also lakh
Turkish yüz bin, yük
- yüz bin100,000 — see also lakh
- yük100,000 — see also lakh
Urdu لاکھ
- لاکھ (lākh)100,000 — see also lakh
Vietnamese trăm nghìn, trăm ngàn
- trăm nghìn100,000 — see also lakh
- trăm ngàn100,000 — see also lakh
- vẹo100,000 — see also lakh
- ức100,000 — see also lakh
- mười vạn100,000 — see also lakh
Welsh can mil
- can mil100,000 — see also lakh
Cite this entry
hundred thousand. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hundred%20thousand
“hundred thousand.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hundred%20thousand. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hundred thousand,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hundred%20thousand.
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