hundred

Universal Words number (plural verb) 1 100 HELPNOTE You say a, one, two, several, etc. hundred without a final 's' on 'hundred'. Hundreds (of...) can be used if there is no number or quantity before it. Always use a plural verb with hundred or hundreds.: One hundred (of the children) have already been placed with foster families. * There were just a hundred of them there. * This vase is worth several hundred dollars. * She must be over a hundred (= a hundred years old). * Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk. * a hundred-year lease 2 a hundred or hundreds (of...) (usually informal) a large amount: hundreds of miles away * for hundreds of years * If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times. * I have a hundred and one things to do. * (formal) Men died in their hundreds. 3 (the hundreds) [pl.] the numbers from 100 to 999: We're talking about a figure in the low hundreds. 4 (the...hundreds) [pl.] (spoken) the years of a particular century: the early nineteen hundreds (= written 'early 1900s') 5 one, two, three, etc. ~ hours (spoken) used to express whole hours in the 24-hour system: twelve hundred hours (= 12.00, midday) IDIOMS see NINETY