hundred
/ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ noun C2- A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
- An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
- Similar 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.
- A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman. · He made a hundred in the historic match.
- Six score of casts of crabs (a score is twenty; a cast is two), totaling two hundred and forty crabs. · Coordinate term: cast
Plural hundreds
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And it’ll fetch things when you throw them, and it’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things—I can’t remember half of them—and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it’s so useful, it’s worth a hundred pounds!
“I’ve heard of these young bloods spending $24 a dozen for soap, and going over the hundred mark for clothes.
“Thirteen hundred—there you are, Kelly,” said Anthony, tearing off a check.
Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the night of the Pack Meeting took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock--a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide.
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