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hundredfold

hundredfold adjective: multiplied by a hundred.

Adjective

hundredfold (not comparable)

  1. Multiplied by a hundred.
    • The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    centuple

Adverb

hundredfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of one hundred.

Verb

hundredfold (third-person singular simple present hundredfolds, present participle hundredfolding, simple past and past participle hundredfolded)

  1. (rare) To increase to one hundred times as much; to multiply by a hundred.

hundredfold meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Sanskrit

hundredfold in Hindi

by a factor of one hundred
शतधा śatdhā

hundredfold in Bengali

hundredfold
একশগুণ ekśogun

hundredfold in Telugu

hundredfold
శతగుణము śataguṇamu, శతమానము śatamānamu

hundredfold in Sanskrit

a hundredfold
शतधा śatadhā́

Synonyms of hundredfold

Forms of hundredfold

third-person singular presenthundredfolds
present participlehundredfolding
past participlehundredfolded
pasthundredfolded

Origin of hundredfold

From Middle English hundredfold. Equivalent to hundred + -fold.

Questions about hundredfold

What does hundredfold mean?
Hundredfold means multiplied by a hundred.
What is hundredfold in Hindi?
Hundredfold in Hindi is शतधा (śatdhā). See Hundredfold meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hundredfold?
Hundredfold can be an adjective, an adverb or a verb.

Words near hundredfold in the dictionary

  1. hundredal
  2. hundredaries
  3. hundredary
  4. hundreder
  5. hundreders
  6. hundredfold
  7. hundredfolded
  8. hundredfolding
  9. hundredfolds
  10. Hundredhanded
  11. hundredish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hundredfold (page history and authors); একশগুণ (Bengali) (page history and authors); శతగుణము (Telugu) (page history and authors); शतधा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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