TWO HUNDRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does two hundred mean? 

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

1. being ten more than one hundred ninety

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWO HUNDRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being ten more than one hundred ninety

Synonyms:

200; cc; two hundred

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

The estimated total mass for these two supermassive black holes is about two hundred million times the mass of our Sun.

(Giant Black Hole Pair Photobombs Andromeda Galaxy, NASA)

Mawson only gives me two hundred, but Mawson is safe.

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

If he always goes on in the same way, he must be, virtually, about two hundred years old, at present.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“You will receive two hundred pounds, if you win. Does that satisfy you?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two hundred years ago—more than that, even in his 'Essay concerning the Human Understanding,' he proved the non-existence of innate ideas.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It’s cost me two hundred pound from first to last, so it isn’t likely I’d give it up without gettin’ my wad.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You speak as if you were going two hundred miles off instead of only across the park; but you will belong to us almost as much as ever.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"I would think that we would try to get our numbers up to one or two hundred before we do that so we have a nice strong herd."

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

Two weeks ago I was passing this place, when I chanced to look back over my shoulder, and about two hundred yards behind me I saw a man, also on a bicycle.

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

A scout was sent flying with a message to the camp, and Sir Hugh, with his two hundred men, thundered off to the rescue.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)