hundrednumber
uk/ˈhʌn.drəd/us/ˈhʌn.drəd/plural hundred or hundredsA2 the number 100:
We've driven a/one hundred miles in the last two hours.
"How many children are there in the school?" "About three hundred."
That dress costs hundreds of dollars.
a hundred/hundreds of sth B2 informal
a large number:
There were hundreds of people at the pool today.
There are a hundred shirts waiting to be ironed.
the hundreds
numbers between 100 and 1,000:
He expects the total amount to be in the low hundreds.
the eighteen hundreds, nineteen hundreds, etc.
the years of a particular century:
The house was built in the sixteen hundreds.
one hundred, two hundred, etc. hours
used to say the time using the 24-hour system, especially used in the military:
Breakfast is at seven hundred hours.
More examples
- Over two hundred people attended the funeral.
- They raised four hundred pounds or so for charity.
- There are one hundred pence in a pound.
- Few people live beyond the age of a hundred.
- Vibrations were felt hundreds of miles from the centre of the earthquake.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Numbers: cardinal, including nought & zero
- bn
- eighty
- eleven
- fifty
- five
- fourteen
- giga-
- googol
- milliard
- million
- O, o
- oh
- seventy
- six
- ten
- thirty
- thousand
- trillion
- twelve
- uni
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Large in number or quantity
Specific periods of time
Describing when something happened or will happen
Idiom(s)
a/one hundred percent