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Hundred Days

noun

, (usually used with a plural verb)
  1. the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.
  2. a special session of Congress from March 9, 1933 to June 16, 1933, called by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which important social legislation was enacted.


hundred days

plural noun

  1. French history the period between Napoleon Bonaparte's arrival in Paris from Elba on March 20, 1815, and his abdication on June 29, 1815
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

The tournament is due to begin in one hundred days, on 19 February.

From BBC

What specifically would you do in your first hundred days in office to end the war?

One hundred days later, that consensus on Capitol Hill shows signs of fraying, as left-wing Democrats alarmed by the rising human toll of the war in Gaza press to limit aid to Israel or impose strict conditions on it.

“The news of your release after four hundred days of enduring prison and being away from your family made us all happy and sweetened our palates,” Ms. Amini’s father, Amjad Amini, wrote on Instagram on Sunday.

One hundred days ago, the previously unthinkable happened in Israel.

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