hundred

B2 · Upper Intermediate Countable noun Informal

n. a piece of paper money worth one hundred units, like dollars or euros.

n. a banknote with a denomination of one hundred units of a specific currency.

“He paid for the expensive dinner with a hundred.”

“The cashier held the hundred up to the light to verify the watermark before completing the transaction.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Countable noun Sports British English

n. a score of 100 runs or more by a single player in a game of cricket.

n. a score of at least one hundred runs achieved by a single batsman in an innings.

“The crowd cheered when the captain finally reached his hundred.”

“After a slow start, the opening batsman accelerated his scoring rate to reach a magnificent hundred before the tea break.”

C2 · Proficiency Countable noun Law Archaic · British English

n. a small area of land used for local government in old England.

n. a historical administrative subdivision of an English county, traditionally large enough to support one hundred households.

“In the Middle Ages, this village was the center of the local hundred.”

“The ancient records of the hundred provide a detailed account of land ownership and tax collection in the fourteenth century.”