hundred

plural hundreds · alternative 100 · alternative C · alternative hecto- · alternative hunnert

1. A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine; ten times ten.

   a/one hundred

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   hundreds of thousands of faces.

   A few hundred pounds' worth of chicken and serveral dozen eggs.

   The numbers totaled in the hundreds.

   Many hundreds more people

   A few hundred migrants who have been waiting in Reynosa, Mexico, for the end of the US pandemic public health order, known as Title 42, were allowed to seek asylum this week, sources on the ground told CNN.

   2022 April 21, Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves, Amir Vera, “CBP allows a few hundred vulnerable migrants to seek asylum this week as thousands wait in Mexico for Title 42 to end, sources say”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2022

   Synonyms: cent, fivescore, one hundred, short hundred, teenty

2. 24-hour clockThe pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.

   “Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I'll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”

   2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185

plural hundreds · alternative 100 · alternative C · alternative hecto- · alternative hunnert

1. A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).

   Synonyms: Franklin, yard, c-note

2. historicalAn administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
3. broadlyhistoricalSimilar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
   1. USbroadlyhistoricalA subdivision once used in parts of the United States and still in use in Delaware solely for the purpose of real estate descriptions.
4. ball gamesA score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

   He made a hundred in the historic match.

   Synonyms: century

5. NorfolkcollectivehistoricalSix score of casts of crabs (a score is twenty; a cast is two), totaling two hundred and forty crabs.

   Coordinate term: cast

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   At Cromer and the neighbourhood the crabs are counted by a peculiar standard: thus, two crabs are counted as one. The two crabs being called a cast, six score cast of crabs is called a hundred. At Cromer, therefore, a hundred crabs is two hundred and forty.

   1876, “The Crab and Lobster Fisheries of Cromer”, in The Nautical Magazine, Cambridge University Press, page 197