one hundred twenty
8
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- numeral
- US
:
ciento veinte
- The teacher said she needed one hundred twenty new textbooks for the class.
- one hundred twenty-five
- one hundred twenty-nine
- one hundred twenty-eight
Examples
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After one hundred twenty minutes of discussion, the committee reached a decision.
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Five hundred sixty-four plus one hundred twenty is six hundred eighty-four.
Blog text (13) -
I weighed one hundred and twenty pounds.
Fiction book (2002) -
Of these, one hundred and twenty were above the state average for the percentage of low-income students.
Academic text (2005) -
The great diplo cow was now one hundred and twenty years old.
Fiction book (2002) -
One hundred twenty-five were identified and asked to participate in the study.
Academic text (2008) -
One hundred twenty-nine accounting students from a large public university participated in the study.
Academic text (2005) -
One hundred and twenty thousand men wore gray coats and fought for the Confederacy.
Fiction book (2002) -
By 1991, the group had one hundred and twenty-five chapters in forty-three states.
Academic text (1991) -
One hundred and twenty-seven additional prints chosen for display in Portland will also be awarded certificates of exhibition.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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A number that is one hundred twenty
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning '120' is directly and transparently derived by combining the known numeric constituents 'one' + 'hundred' + 'twenty' using standard English numeral formation rules. This compositional, cross-linguistically common counting pattern is predictable for learners who know the individual number words, so a B1 learner would readily understand it.
Etymology
One hundred twenty is a number phrase made by putting one hundred and twenty together — imagine 100 items plus 20 more. So it means '120'.