hundred
number /ˈhʌndrəd/
/ˈhʌndrəd/
Idioms - 100
- One hundred (of the children) have already been placed with foster families.
- There were just a hundred of them there.
- This vase is worth several hundred dollars.
- She must be over a hundred (= a hundred years old).
- Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk.
- a hundred-year lease
- a hundred, hundreds (of…)(usually informal) a large amount
- hundreds of miles away
- for hundreds of years
- If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times.
- I have a hundred and one things to do.
- (formal) Men died in their hundreds.
- the hundreds[plural] the numbers from 100 to 999
- We're talking about a figure in the low hundreds.
- the… hundreds[plural] the years of a particular century
- the early nineteen hundreds (= written ‘early 1900s’)
- one, two, three, etc. hundred hours used to express whole hours in the 24-hour system
- twelve hundred hours (= 12.00 midday)
Word Originlate Old English, from hund ‘hundred’ (from an Indo-European root shared with Latin centum and Greek hekaton) + a second element meaning ‘number’; of Germanic origin and related to Dutch honderd and German hundert.
Idioms
give a hundred (and ten) per cent
- to put as much effort into something as you can; to give even more effort than could be expected
- Every player gave a hundred per cent tonight.
a/one hundred per cent
- in every way synonym completely
- I'm not a hundred per cent sure.
- My family supports me one hundred per cent.
- completely fit and healthy
- I still don't feel a hundred per cent.
ninety-nine times out of a hundred
- almost always