one hundred fifty
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- numeral
- /wʌn ˈhʌndrəd ˈfɪfti/
- US
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- The marathon had over one hundred fifty participants this year.
- one hundred fifty years
- more than one hundred fifty
- one hundred fifty students
Examples
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Reed hopes to enlist more than one hundred fifty thousand by the end of the year.
Academic text (1990) -
Of more than one hundred fifty reviews, few praised the book without also heaping ample measures of blame upon it.
Academic text (1990) -
The judge set bail at one hundred fifty thousand dollars.
Fiction book (1992) -
Cashier: Lost ticket charge, one hundred fifty dollars.
Fiction book (2001) -
For the past one hundred fifty years, the Chinese have played a dominant economic role in most Southeast Asian countries.
Academic text (1993) -
One hundred fifty people took on the challenge, including me and a Sacramento City Council member.
Blog text (34) -
Caucasian male, probably just a whisper over six feet tall and not more than one hundred fifty pounds.
Fiction book (1996) -
Although St. John received more than one hundred fifty thousand votes nationwide, he garnered only 195 votes, or about 0.12 percent of the total vote in Georgia.
Academic text (2009) -
She donated one hundred fifty dollars to the charity.
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The library has more than one hundred fifty books on that subject.
Synonyms
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A number equal to one hundred and fifty
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'one hundred fifty' is fully compositional: the constituents 'one', 'hundred', and 'fifty' combine according to standard numeric rules to yield 150. This numeric formation is cross-linguistically common and follows predictable arithmetic composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent numerals will understand the meaning immediately.
Etymology
One hundred fifty is simply the words one hundred and fifty put together to show 100 + 50. Think of a large group of 100 and a smaller group of 50 joining to make the number '150', so the phrase means the number 150.