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four-hundredth

four-hundredth

1 2.0
A number that comes after three hundred ninety-nine in a list
  • adjective
  • /fɔrˈhʌndrədθ/
translation icon : cuadringentésimo
  • The four hundredth anniversary last year of John Milton's birth was marked, inside academe and beyond, by celebrations that sometimes seemed to devolve into complaints about Milton's difficulty.
  • four-hundredth episode
  • four-hundredth anniversary

Examples

  • The four-hundredth episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will air this Friday.

  • We are excited to celebrate our four-hundredth performance at the theater.

  • In honor of their four-hundredth anniversary, the city planned a week of festivities.

Synonyms

400th
vsfour-hundredth
2 1.0

A number that shows an item is in position four hundred in a list

is the same ordinal but written in words with a hyphen

Surface Forms

four-hundredth positive

Morphology

four-hundredth = four + hundred (transparent) = four + hundred + th

The ordinal is formed regularly from the cardinal components 'four' + 'hundred' with the ordinal suffix '-th', so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Four-hundredth is made from four ('4') and hundred ('100') plus the ending -th, which turns a number into an order. So it means the item in position 400 in a list or sequence.