adj
Meaning 1
Multiplied by a hundred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: centuple
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hundredfold
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adv
Meaning 2
By a factor of one hundred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To increase to one hundred times as much; to multiply by a hundred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 4
by a factor of one hundred
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they money increased a hundredfold
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: a hundred times
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English hundredfold. Equivalent to hundred + -fold.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aghwan: 𐕇𐕒𐕍𐕈𐕒𐕌 (x̣oq̇åom) — Multiplied by a hundred
- Bulgarian: стократен (stokraten) — Multiplied by a hundred
- Finnish: satakertainen — Multiplied by a hundred
- French: centuple — Multiplied by a hundred
- French: cent fois — Multiplied by a hundred
- German: hundertfach — Multiplied by a hundred
- Hungarian: százszor — Multiplied by a hundred
- Irish: céadach — Multiplied by a hundred
- Latin: centumplex — Multiplied by a hundred
- Middle English: hundredfold — Multiplied by a hundred
- Polish: stokrotny — Multiplied by a hundred
- Spanish: céntuplo — Multiplied by a hundred
- Swedish: hundrafaldig — Multiplied by a hundred
- Ukrainian: стокра́тний (stokrátnyj) — Multiplied by a hundred
- Finnish: satakertaisesti — by a factor of one hundred
- French: une centaine de fois — by a factor of one hundred
- Hindi: शतधा (śatdhā) — by a factor of one hundred
- Middle English: hundredfold — by a factor of one hundred
- Polish: stokroć — by a factor of one hundred
- Polish: stokrotnie — by a factor of one hundred
- Swedish: hundrafalt — by a factor of one hundred
- Ukrainian: стокра́тно (stokrátno) — by a factor of one hundred
- Bulgarian: стократно (stokratno) — increase to hundred times as much
- Finnish: satakertaistaa — increase to hundred times as much
- French: centupler — increase to hundred times as much
- Georgian: ასჯერ (asǯer) — increase to hundred times as much
- Romanian: însuti — increase to hundred times as much
- Swedish: hundrafaldiga — increase to hundred times as much