hundred

hundreds of thousands of faces.

a/one hundred

A few hundred pounds' worth of chicken and serveral dozen eggs.

A few hundred migrants who have been waiting in Reynosa, Mexico, for the end of the US pandemic public health order, known as Title 42, were allowed to seek asylum this week, sources on the ground told CNN.

2022 April 21, Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves and Amir Vera, “CBP allows a few hundred vulnerable migrants to seek asylum this week as thousands wait in Mexico for Title 42 to end, sources say”, in CNN:

The announcement comes amid mounting pressure on university administrators to rein in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which have erupted periodically on college campuses across the country over the past year and led to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators.

2025 March 10, Karina Tsui and Elizabeth Wolfe, “Department of Education investigating 60 colleges and universities over antisemitism claims”, in CNN:

A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.

“Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I'll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”

2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:

(24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.

hundreds (plural)
C (alternative)
hecto- (alternative)

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

→ Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri

/ˈhʌnd͡ʒəɹd/

From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.


hundred

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

He made a hundred in the historic match.

(cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

carucate (1⁄100 hundred & for smaller divisions)

/ˈhʌnd͡ʒəɹd/