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one hundred forty-five

one hundred forty-five

1 1.0
A number that is five more than one hundred forty
  • numeral
  • US
: ciento cuarenta y cinco
  • I have one hundred forty-five dollars in my wallet.

Examples

  • There are exactly one hundred forty-five pages in the report.

  • The painting was created one hundred forty-five years ago.

  • Last year, the school enrolled one hundred forty-five students in the new program.

  • The answer is one hundred forty-five.

  • The basketball team scored one hundred forty-five points in the final match.

  • She ran a total of one hundred forty-five miles during her training program.

  • There are one hundred forty-five students enrolled in the new course this semester.

Synonyms

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1 9.9

A Roman numeral meaning one hundred forty-five

is the numeric name for that value using standard digits

Surface Forms

one hundred forty-five cardinal word
145 cardinal digit

Morphology

one + hundred + forty-five

The numeral 'one hundred forty-five' is transparently built from the numeric constituents 'one' + 'hundred' + 'forty-five' following standard English compositional rules for cardinal numbers, so its value (145) is directly derivable. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the constituent numerals.

Etymology

One hundred forty-five is the name for the number made from one hundred, forty, and five. Imagine a box with one hundred apples, add forty more and then five more—together they make 145, so the phrase means the number 'one hundred forty-five'.