hundred

numeral

1. 1

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

   hundreds of thousands of faces.

   a/one hundred

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

   The numbers totaled in the hundreds.

2. 2

   The 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.”

noun

1. 1

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

2. 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. 3

   historicalSimilar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire

4. 4

   historicalSimilar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire A subdivision once used in parts of the United States and still in use in Delaware solely for the purpose of real estate descriptions.

5. 5

   A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

   He made a hundred in the historic match.

6. 6

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

   Coordinate term: cast

   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.

Forms

plural

hundreds