one hundred sixty
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1.0
- numeral
- US
:
ciento sesenta
- One hundred sixty.
- one hundred sixtysix
- one hundred sixty thousand
Examples
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One hundred sixty medical coders from a large health care company participated in the experiment.
Academic text (2005) -
One hundred sixty-one subjects were White, 47 were Hispanic, 6 were Black, 4 were Asian American, and 4 were Native American.
Academic text (1994) -
One hundred sixty of these were complete enough to form the sample population.
Academic text (1990) -
One hundred sixty
Academic text (2017) -
One hundred sixty-eight (63.4%) responded to the survey.
Academic text (1990) -
One hundred sixty... students enrolled in the course this semester.
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The car costs one hundred sixty... thousand dollars, making it quite expensive.
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The marathon was attended by one hundred sixty... runners from various countries.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The numeral phrase 'one hundred sixty' is directly and predictably composed from the meanings of 'one', 'hundred', and 'sixty' following standard English numeric composition rules, so a B1 learner who knows those words will understand it denotes 160. This pattern is formulaic and cross-linguistically common (place-value composition), so the expression is fully transparent rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
One hundred sixty simply means one group of one hundred and sixty more. So, it is the number '160'.