THREE HUNDRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does three hundred mean? 

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

1. being one hundred more than two hundred

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THREE HUNDRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one hundred more than two hundred

Synonyms:

300; ccc; three hundred

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

"An' I wisht 'twas three hundred. Then I'd show 'em what for, damn 'em!"

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Now we are three hundred yards away.

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

A frequency rate of occurrences of something within a period of time equal to three hundred sixty-five days.

(Per Year, NCI Thesaurus)

When The Parthenon check of three hundred and fifty dollars was forwarded to him, he turned it over to the local lawyer who had attended to Brissenden's affairs for his family.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Three hundred tailors were employed in the same manner to make me clothes; but they had another contrivance for taking my measure.

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

The peasant, however, made off next morning by daybreak with the three hundred talers.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

None of it that I noticed was less than three hundred years old.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Buck had sprung in on the instant; and at the end of three hundred yards, amid a mad swirl of water, he overhauled Thornton.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Three hundred chosen knights came straight for it, and, indeed, they were very brave men, but such a drift of arrows met them that few came back.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wasn’t I a-layin’ on the Emma L., not three hundred yards away?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)