HUNDRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hundred mean? 

• HUNDRED (noun)
  The noun HUNDRED has 1 sense:

1. ten 10s

  Familiarity information: HUNDRED used as a noun is very rare.

• HUNDRED (adjective)
  The adjective HUNDRED has 1 sense:

1. being ten more than ninety

  Familiarity information: HUNDRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNDRED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ten 10s

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

100; C; century; hundred; one C

Hypernyms ("hundred" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• HUNDRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being ten more than ninety

Synonyms:

100; c; hundred; one hundred

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

And it is this letter—this letter which may well mean the expenditure of a thousand millions and the lives of a hundred thousand men—which has become lost in this unaccountable fashion.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

John Straker, who is a married man, lived in a small villa about two hundred yards from the stables.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

When about a hundred yards from the pool I heard a cry of “Cooee!” which was a usual signal between my father and myself.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He began to collect them and sort them out, in packages of a hundred, tying each package securely with twine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The city is an exact square, each side of the wall being five hundred feet long.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Now he is two hundred yards away. After a long time he is one hundred yards away.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She was pretty and soft, but she weighed one hundred and twenty pounds—a lusty last straw to the load dragged by the weak and starving animals.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“It's better than a hundred pounds to hear you say so!” said I.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yes, and only one hundred and forty miles if it continues for three days and nights.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)