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# hundred

«hundred» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 100, ten tens** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number (a hundred, one hundred, two hundred); noun (hundred, hundreds)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hundred is the number 100, ten tens. A hundred is 100. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#m1)

2) Hundreds means many, a large number, without an exact count. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#m2)

3) The hundreds place is the third digit from the right in a whole number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#m3)

4) A hundred per cent means all of something, or completely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, a number word; also a place value (the hundreds digit); 100 cents make a dollar, 100 centimetres make a metre, 100 years make a century. In everyday life: «a hundred times» means very many times. In stories: «hundreds of stars». Phrases: «a hundred», «hundreds of», «one hundred per cent», «the hundreds place», «a hundred and one».

### examples

- The school has three hundred pupils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#x1)
- A hundred cents make one dollar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#x2)
- What digit is in the hundreds place of 452? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#x3)
- Hundreds of birds flew by. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#x4)
- There are 100 centimetres in a metre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#x5)
- I've told you a hundred times to tidy your room! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#x6)
- She counted to a hundred during hide and seek. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#x7)
- He scored a hundred per cent on the spelling test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#x8)
- A century is a hundred years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#x9)
- 'Two hundred hussars, forward!' cried he. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/#x10)

### note

After a number, hundred has no -s: «three hundred», not «three hundreds»; but «hundreds of birds». British English says «a hundred and five», American often «a hundred five». Read «three hundred» as 300. Trap: «hundreds of» without a number means «many», not an exact amount; «the hundreds place» asks for a digit, not the value (in 452 the digit is 4, the value is 400).

### In the corpora

- [Documentary shows about real hospitals film real patients who agreed; they show the exciting moments chosen from hundreds of hours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/22/)
- [A big film can need hundreds or even thousands of people, and the credits at the end list them all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/5/)
- [A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell receptors, while a human nose has about 5 or 6 million.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/10/)
- [Zoo kitchens prepare hundreds of meals a day, and nutritionists plan the right mix of food for each kind of animal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/4/)
- [When researchers sprayed a harmless mist into single canopy trees, beetles of hundreds of kinds fell out, many never named.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hundred» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundred/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.