{
    "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."
}