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What (who) is hundred - definition
NATURAL NUMBER
1 E2; Number 100; One hundred; One Hundred; Hundred (number); 10²; 𐡝; 💯; Hundred; 1e2; 1E2; Short hundred; 100x; 10^2; 100 (number); Hunnid; 10**2
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hundred
(hundreds)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: The plural form is 'hundred' after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as 'several' or 'a few'.
1.
A hundred or one hundred is the number 100.
According to one official more than a hundred people have been arrested.
NUM: usu a/num NUM
2.
If you refer to hundreds of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.
Hundreds of tree species face extinction...
QUANT: QUANT of pl-n [emphasis]
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You can also use hundreds as a pronoun.
Hundreds have been killed in the fighting and thousands made homeless.
PRON
3.
You can use a hundred per cent or one hundred per cent to emphasize that you agree completely with something or that it is completely right or wrong. (INFORMAL)
Are you a hundred per cent sure it's your neighbour?...
= absolutely
PHRASE: PHR adj, PHR after v [emphasis]
hundred
¦ cardinal number (plural hundreds or (with numeral or quantifying word) hundred)
1. (a/one hundred) the number equivalent to the product of ten and ten; ten more than ninety; 100. (Roman numeral: c or C.)
2. (hundreds) informal an unspecified large number.
3. used to express whole hours in the twenty-four-hour system.
¦ noun Brit. historical a subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court.
Phrases
a (or one) hundred per cent entirely.
?[usu. with negative] informal completely fit and healthy.
?informal maximum effort and commitment.
Derivatives
hundredfold adjective & adverb
hundredth ordinal number.
Origin
OE, from hund 'hundred' + a second element meaning 'number', of Gmc origin; the noun was perh. orig. equivalent to a hundred hides of land (see hide3).
hundred
n.
Century.
Wikipedia
100
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to describe the long hundred of six score or 120.
Examples of use of hundred
1. And there, hundred upon hundred, were spider webs that simply werent there yesterday.
2. The province has 3'.' mobile phones per hundred people, versus 30.2 fixed residential lines per hundred.
3. Several hundred officers quickly dispersed the last few hundred rioters left in the area.
4. The tax exemption limit is being enhanced from one hundred thousand to one hundred fifty thousand rupees.
5. A hundred people had set up chairs at the rink, a few hundred more milled around it.