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one hundred forty

one hundred forty

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A number equal to 140
  • numeral
  • US
translation icon : ciento cuarenta
  • one hundred forty dollars
  • one hundred forty miles
  • one hundred forty people

Examples

  • One hundred forty employees were notified of the decision Tuesday and will be paid for 60 days.

    Blog text (15)
  • There are over one hundred forty bridges in Venice, and most of them, no matter how small, have their own popular names and yarns.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Every month a check comes, one hundred forty dollars for each child (there are four children—I’m number four), but nothing for the widow.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • One hundred forty-six respondents (65%) reported that they were not currently infusing EE concepts into their teaching.

    Academic text (1997)
  • It was just before eight on a Saturday morning, and already a few of the town's one hundred forty-nine residents were on their lawns, pushing mowers, seeding, and cutting shingles to replace what had rotted in winter.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • One hundred forty people attended the concert last night.

  • The project was completed in one hundred forty days, ahead of schedule.

  • The train travels at a speed of one hundred forty miles per hour.

Synonyms

140
vsone hundred forty
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A number that is one hundred and forty

uses the same number but without 'and' in the full form

Surface Forms

one hundred forty cardinal word
140 cardinal digit

Morphology

one + hundred + forty

The phrase is fully compositional: a learner who knows 'one' (1), 'hundred' (×100) and 'forty' (40) can straightforwardly compute 100 + 40 = 140. Number formation in English follows a regular, cross-linguistic arithmetic pattern (aside from optional 'and' in some dialects), so the meaning is immediately derivable from the constituents.

Etymology

One hundred forty is a name made from the parts one, hundred, and forty. It pictures one full hundred plus four tens, so it means 'the number 140'.