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{
"term": "hundred",
"partOfSpeech": "number",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "100",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "One hundred (of the children) have already been placed with foster families."
},
{
"text": "There were just a hundred of them there."
},
{
"text": "This vase is worth several hundred dollars."
},
{
"text": "She must be over a hundred *(= a hundred years old)*."
},
{
"text": "Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk."
},
{
"text": "a hundred-year lease"
}
],
"topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a large amount",
"labels": "(usually informal)(formal)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "hundreds of miles away"
},
{
"text": "for hundreds of years"
},
{
"text": "If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times."
},
{
"text": "I have **a hundred and one** things to do."
},
{
"text": "Men died in their hundreds."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the numbers from 100 to 999",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We're talking about a figure in the low hundreds."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "the years of a particular century",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the early nineteen hundreds *(= written ‘early 1900s’)*"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "used to express whole hours in the 24-hour system",
"sensetop": "one, two, three, etc. hundred hours",
"examples": [
{
"text": "twelve hundred hours *(= 12.00 midday)*"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to put as much effort into something as you can; to give even more effort than could be expected",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Every player gave a hundred per cent tonight."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "in every way",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm not a hundred per cent sure."
},
{
"text": "My family supports me one hundred per cent."
}
],
"synonyms": "completely"
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "completely fit and healthy",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I still don't feel a hundred per cent."
}
],
"topics": ["Health and Fitness"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "almost always",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhʌndrəd/",
"audio": "hu/hundred/hundred__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhʌndrəd/",
"audio": "hu/hundred/hundred__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "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."
}