hundred
/ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ numeral A2- A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine; ten times ten. · hundreds of thousands of faces.· a/one hundred
- The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
Plural hundreds
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Number one hundred and twenty-seven is ‘Government’; which at least makes sense, though somewhat irrelevant to ourselves and Professor Moriarty.
“Look round you then.” Dantès rose and looked forward, when he saw rise within a hundred yards of him the black and frowning rock on which stands the Château d’If.
This gloomy fortress, which has for more than three hundred years furnished food for so many wild legends, seemed to Dantès like a scaffold to a malefactor.
“Yet,” stammered Dantès, wiping the perspiration from his brow,—“yet I gave you two hundred francs when I left, three months ago.”
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