hundreds Definition

hundred
noun hundreds, hundred (after a number)

1. The number which is ten times ten.
2. A numeral, figure or symbol representing this, eg 100 or C.
3. A set of 100 people or things.

Example: one hundred pounds
4. A score of a 100 points.
5. colloq
A large but indefinite number.
Example: hundreds of people
Form: hundreds
6. The 100 years of a specified century.

Example: the thirteen-hundreds
Form: hundreds
7. historical
A division of an English county originally meant to contain a hundred families.

adj

1. Totalling or to the number of 100.
2. colloq
Very many.
Example: I've told you a hundred times to stop

Idiom: great hundred (long hundred)

120.

Idiom: not a hundred miles from something

colloq
Very near it.

Idiom: not a hundred per cent

Not in perfect health.

Idiom: one hundred hours (two etc hundred hours)

One, two, etc o'clock

Etymology: from the style of writing hours and minutes as 0100, 0200, … 1400, 1500, etc. &clock; Anglo-Saxon, from hund a hundred + suffix -red a reckoning.