four hundred
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cuatrocientos
- The museum has four hundred artifacts from ancient civilizations on display.
- four hundred dollars
- four hundred thousand
- four hundred years
Examples
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Members Emily Kelly, Nathan Perry, Kelly Reed, and Meghan Rogers shared the four-hundred-dollar scholarship.
Academic text (1995) -
We need to raise four hundred dollars to fund the community project.
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Well, it's only about four hundred thousand.
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At five thousand feet, a pilot is looking at almost four hundred square miles of ground.
Fiction book (1991) -
We are marching on Congress July the Fourth, four hundred thousand strong.
Academic text (1996) -
Here I found myself with four hundred square kilometers of raw stone.
Fiction book (1995) -
You know, I make four-hundred dollars a week.
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His home base is a town called Charleville, which is about four hundred miles from here.
Fiction book (1991) -
And Lune Lake was four hundred miles away from my parents and their problems.
Fiction book (1995) -
You run up a four-hundred dollar phone bill.
Synonyms
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A number that is one hundred more than three hundred
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the number 400' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'four' (the digit 4) with 'hundred' (the multiplier 100), following standard English numeric formation. This numeric construction is regular, highly predictable and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Four hundred is just the number made from four and hundred, meaning 'four times one hundred'. Imagine four stacks of one hundred coins to see the picture — that's why it equals '400'.