hundred
IPA: hˈʌndrʌd
noun
- A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
- (historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
- (by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
- (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
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Examples of "hundred" in Sentences
- A few hundred spectators marveled at it.
- As hundreds wail, the victim's ashes immersed.
- In the sewers, Hundred encounters an automaton.
- Hundreds of men were on the payroll for the mines.
- It blocked the shaft, and entombed hundreds of miners.
- Contains hundreds of names and is blissfully unsourced.
- Leaving hundreds of them is uncalled for and inconsiderate.
- Hundreds of homeowners associations are foreclosing on banks.
- The authors are unidentified in the case of a hundred stanzas.
- In reality, the Five Hundred is the replacement for the Taurus.
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