Hundred ˈhʌndrəd Years Number Bre Children Foster Families

• 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).

hundred

1. 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
• Four hundred (people) are expected to attend.
• Two hundred (pounds) was withdrawn from the account.
2. 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.
• Men died in their hundreds.
3. the numbers from 100 to 999
• We're talking about a figure in the low hundreds.
4. the years of a particular century
• the early nineteen hundreds (= written ‘early 1900s’)
5. used to express whole hours in the 24-hour system
• twelve hundred hours (= 12.00, midday)
6. in every way
• synonym completely
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/completely
• I'm not a hundred per cent sure.
• My family supports me one hundred per cent.
7. completely fit and healthy
• See related entries: Good health
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/good_health/hundred
• I still don't feel a hundred per cent.
8. to put as much effort into something as you can
• Every player gave a hundred per cent tonight.
9. almost always

Word Origin

• late 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.