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HUNDREDFOLD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hundredfold mean?
• HUNDREDFOLD (adverb)
The adverb HUNDREDFOLD has 1 sense:
1. by a factor of one hundred
Familiarity information: HUNDREDFOLD used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
By a factor of one hundred
Synonyms:
a hundred times; hundredfold
Context example:
they money increased a hundredfold
Context examples
If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundredfold; for that one creature’s sake I would make peace with the whole kind!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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