Phrase Hound found 19 phrases and 1 compound words that contain hundreds. The most common are listed below. Open hundreds in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 19
- hundreds of thousandsIn the sense of the sugar decoration, an error for hundreds and thousands.
- hundreds and thousandsAn indefinite but emphatically large number.
- Chiltern HundredsAn ancient administrative area in Buckinghamshire, England, composed of three hundreds and lying partially within the Chiltern Hills.
- low hundredsAn unspecified number between 100 and 200 that is rather closer to 100 than 200, as opposed to mid hundreds and high hundreds.
- mid hundredsAn unspecified number between 100 and 200 that is rather in the middle between those limits, as opposed to low hundreds and high hundreds.
- eighteen hundredsThe period of time consisting of the years 1800 through 1899.
- nineteen hundredsThe decade consisting of the years 1900 through 1909.
- five hundredsplural of five hundred: The cardinal number occurring after four hundred ninety-nine and before five hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 500. Ordinal: five-hundredth.
- great hundredsplural of great hundred: A long hundred: one hundred and twenty (120)
- high hundredsThe range of an unspecified number between 100 and 200 that is rather close to 200 than 100, as opposed to low hundreds and mid hundreds.
- long hundredsplural of long hundred: One hundred and twenty (120), 12 × 10.
- middle hundredsUnspecified number greater than 133 (when compared to low hundreds) and less than or 166 (when compared to high hundreds)
- short hundredsplural of short hundred: One hundred (100), 10 x 10, especially when contrasted with one long hundred.
- daddy hundredsplural of daddy hundred: A batter's individual score that is substantially higher than a century (100).
- take the Chiltern HundredsTo vacate one's seat in the House of Commons (since resignation is not permitted), under the legal fiction of being appointed to an "office of profit under the Crown": the ancient office of Crown Steward for the Chiltern Hundreds, in …
- taken the Chiltern Hundredspast participle of take the Chiltern Hundreds: To vacate one's seat in the House of Commons (since resignation is not permitted), under the legal fiction of being appointed to an "office of profit under the Crown": the ancient office of …
- takes the Chiltern Hundredsthird-person singular simple present indicative of take the Chiltern Hundreds: To vacate one's seat in the House of Commons (since resignation is not permitted), under the legal fiction of being appointed to an "office of profit under the …
- taking the Chiltern Hundredspresent participle and gerund of take the Chiltern Hundreds
- took the Chiltern Hundredssimple past of take the Chiltern Hundreds
Compound words 1
- yearhundredsplural of yearhundred: Century (a hundred-year timespan).