one hundred one
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- numeral
- /wʌn ˈhʌndrəd wʌn/
- US
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ciento uno
- "Give me one hundred one degrees, full force," she said and shifted so that the shower spray hit her straight in the face.
- one hundred one dollars
Examples
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Let us say that you will bring me one hundred one-dollar bills by sunset Sunday, one week from today.
Fiction book (1990) -
Somebody opened the window a crack because the heat is cranked up to about one hundred one, and you can hear the garbage trucks pulling up at the curb, trash clanking as it's dumped in.
Fiction book (2002) -
Methods: One hundred one patients with acute asthma (48 with MPA, 53 with SPA) were studied to determine the efficacy of oral corticosteroids.
Academic text (2007) -
In the final game, the team lost one hundred one to fifty-three.
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She paid one hundred one dollars for her new jacket.
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The temperature reached one hundred one degrees Fahrenheit yesterday.
Synonyms
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The number 101
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning '101' is the straightforward additive composition of the numerals 'one' + 'hundred' + 'one' and can be computed by anyone who knows those constituent number words. This numeric composition pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'ciento uno'), so a B1 learner who knows the parts will understand the MWE.
Etymology
One hundred one is a counting name made from one + hundred + one, showing a hundred plus one extra, so it means 'one more than one hundred'.