Hundred | Mean of hundred in English Dictionary

/ˈhʌndrəd/

• Noun
• the number 100
1. a/one hundred (of them)
2. a hundred and one = one hundred and one = (chiefly US) a hundred one [=101]
3. two/several hundred (of them)
• an amount that is more than 200
1. Hundreds (and hundreds) (of them) came. = They came in the hundreds. = (chiefly Brit) They came in their hundreds.
• a very large number
1. I've seen that movie hundreds of times. [=many times]

• a hundred-dollar bill
1. Can you give me change for a hundred?
2. He paid with a couple of hundreds.
• almost always
1. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you can fix the problem by restarting the computer.