Collins English-English Dictionary

hundred ['h^ndrəd]

1. 1. n the cardinal number that is the product of ten and ten; five score - See also number

2. 2. n a numeral, 100, C, etc, representing this number

3. 3. n [often plural] a large but unspecified number, amount, or quantity

   there will be hundreds of people there

4. 4. n [plural] the 100 years of a specified century

   in the sixteen hundreds

5. 5. n something representing, represented by, or consisting of 100 units

6. 6. n [maths] the position containing a digit representing that number followed by two zeros

   in 4376, 3 is in the hundred's place

7. 7. n an ancient division of a county in England, Ireland, and parts of the US

8. 8. determiner amounting to or approximately a hundred

   a hundred reasons for that

9. 9. determiner (as pronoun)

   the hundred I chose

10. 10. determiner amounting to 100 times a particular scientific quantity

    a hundred volts

11. 11. determiner [Etymology] Old English; related to Old Frisian hunderd, Old Norse hundrath, German hundert, Gothic hund, Latin centum, Greek hekaton