Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - hundred

(hundreds) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: The plural form is 'hundred' after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as ‘several’ or ‘a few’. 1. A hundred or one hundred is the number 100. According to one official more than a hundred people have been arrested. NUM: usu a/num NUM 2. If you refer to hundreds of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them. Hundreds of tree species face extinction... QUANT: QUANT of pl-n c darkgreen]emphasis • You can also use hundreds as a pronoun. Hundreds have been killed in the fighting and thousands made homeless. PRON 3. You can use a hundred per cent or one hundred per cent to emphasize that you agree completely with something or that it is completely right or wrong. (INFORMAL) Are you a hundred per cent sure it’s your neighbour?... = absolutely PHRASE: PHR adj, PHR after v c darkgreen]emphasis