Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 100
• Roman numerals: C
• ISO prefix: hecto-
• Exponential notation: 10²

Numeral

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

   • a hundred, one hundred
   • nineteen hundred, one thousand nine hundred
   • hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of faces

Usage notes

• a hundred men / one hundred men / the hundred men
• cf. a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men
• cf. ten men / the ten men

• two hundred men / some hundred men
• hundreds of men

Quotations

• 2006 November 3, Susan Allport (guest), “Getting the skinny on fat”, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, National Public Radio

  That has really soared over the past a hundred years or so

• 2008 January 21, John Eggerton (interviewee), “The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership”, Justice Talking, National Public Radio

  it applies to only the top twenty markets in removing the ban, whereas in two thousand three the FCC was essentially proposing removing it let's say in the top a hundred and seventy markets.

• 2009 October 13, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, “In Israel, Kibbutz Life Undergoes Reinvention”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio

  Hanatonwas founded in the nineteen eighties, but from the original a hundred and fourteen members, by two thousand and six, only eleven were left.

• 2009 October 21, John Ydstie, “U.S. To Order Bailout Firms To Cut Exec Pay”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio

  Overall, the top a hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies

Noun

1. A hundred-dollar bill.
2. An administrative subdivision in southern English counties and in other countries.
3. A hundred runs scored by a batsman.

   He made a hundred in the historic match.