two-hundredth
- adjective
- /tuː ˈhʌndrədθ/
- "Buster Midnight has just successfully won his two hundredth fight," May Anna said, slurring her words because she was drunk.
- two-hundredth anniversary
- two-hundredth birthday
- celebrating the two-hundredth
Examples
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And in Santa Fe, in 1892, at a festival celebrating the two hundredth year of the Spanish reconquest of New Mexico, San Juan, an old Mescalero chief who not many years before had fought the New Mexicans, made a speech.
Academic text (1992) -
In fact, after about the two hundredth Southern Cross, I started watching for COLORED ONLY signs.
Fiction book (2002) -
Planning is now underway for celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of the White House.
Academic text (1999) -
2) Today is the two hundredth anniversary of the final extinction of my One True Love, as close as I can date it.
Blog text (32) -
"From that single clue, I shrewdly deduced the community had recently celebrated its two-hundredth birthday."
Fiction book (1992) -
37 The Committee on the Constitutional System (whose ranks included James MacGregor Burns, an admirer of the 1950 report) proposed several amendments to the Constitution on its two-hundredth anniversary.
Academic text (1992) -
This year marks her two-hundredth week working at the company.
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They celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary of their founding with a grand event.
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The marathon was held in honor of the city's two-hundredth year of incorporation.
Synonyms
In the position after one hundred and ninety-nine others in a list
Surface Forms
Morphology
two-hundredth = two hundred (transparent) = two + hundred + th
The ordinal is formed by adding the regular ordinal suffix '-th' to the cardinal 'two hundred', so the meaning is directly predictable.
Etymology
Two-hundredth is made from two, hundred, and the ending -th, which turns a number into an order word or 'place'. So Two-hundredth means the '200th' thing in a sequence, like finishing in 200th place.