one hundred thirty-five
- numeral
- US
- He inherited one hundred thirty-five acres of farmland from his grandparents.
Examples
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She celebrated her one hundred thirty-fifth birthday with a big party in the garden.
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There are one hundred thirty-five students in the class.
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The hotel room number was one hundred thirty-five, just down the hall from the elevator.
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Can you believe the score was one hundred thirty-five to seventy?
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The library has received one hundred thirty-five new books this month.
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The team scored one hundred thirty-five points in the last game.
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There are one hundred thirty-five participants registered for the event.
Surface Forms
Morphology
one + hundred + thirty-five
The meaning is fully compositional: 'one' + 'hundred' + 'thirty-five' combines by standard numeric formation rules to yield 1×100 + 35 = 135. This decimal/positional pattern is cross-linguistically regular and follows predictable English counting rules, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent number words will understand the MWE.
Etymology
One hundred thirty-five comes from basic counting: it joins one hundred, meaning 100, and thirty-five, meaning 35, so it names 'the number 135'.