hundred thousand
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- There are more than a hundred thousand species of insects in tropical rainforests.
- one hundred thousand
- several hundred thousand
- five hundred thousand
Examples
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It is one hundred thousand.
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Their numbers topped one hundred thousand at the end of the century.
Academic text (1999) -
Almost one hundred thousand, give or take a few.
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It's supposed to be two hundred thousand.
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It's a hundred thousand dollars in cash.
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Eight hundred thousand in commission dollars.
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I've been working a deal that could mean almost a hundred thousand dollars to me.
Fiction book (1994) -
One hundred thousand dollars.
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A hundred thousand dollars!
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In Beijing, a crowd of more than one hundred thousand protesters gathered in Tiananmen Square.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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A number equal to one hundred thousand
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is fully compositional: combining 'hundred' (100) with 'thousand' (1,000) yields 100 × 1,000 = 100,000, so a B1 learner who knows both numeral words can derive the value. This follows regular English numeral compounding and common cross‑linguistic counting patterns, making the phrase immediately understandable.
Etymology
Hundred thousand comes from the simple idea of hundred times thousand. Imagine 100 boxes, each with 1,000 coins, and together they hold '100,000', so the phrase means the number '100,000'.