one hundred forty
- numeral
- US
- one hundred forty dollars
- one hundred forty miles
- one hundred forty people
Examples
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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.
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The project was completed in one hundred forty days, ahead of schedule.
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The train travels at a speed of one hundred forty miles per hour.
Synonyms
A number that is one hundred and forty
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.