one hundred thirty
- numeral
- US
- In all, about one hundred thirty people perished.
- one hundred thirtyfour
Examples
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"One hundred thirty-seven miles to Redding," her father announced.
Fiction book (1995) -
There are one hundred thirty students enrolled in the course this semester.
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As I wrote a check for one hundred thirty dollars, the minister made three calls.
Fiction book (2000) -
Two years later, that record was broken when one hundred thirty-two vessels were registered in port on a single day.
Academic text (2008) -
It had cost one hundred thirty dollars per week for the last ten weeks, "and five dollars for laundry, besides," he added, with some emphasis.
Fiction book (1998) -
Data were collected from one hundred thirty-three high school students attending the Y.O.U. eight-week summer programs.
Academic text (1995) -
One hundred thirty parents of children with visual disabilities who resided in Illinois participated in this study.
Academic text (2001) -
This monument is one hundred thirty meters high at Merdeka Square and is the main image of Jakarta.
Blog text (11) -
The other one hundred thirty were probably sold in the area of Montmollin's and Tucker's plantations, or to those men.
Academic text (2009) -
One hundred thirty-four (134) students in grades five, six, and seven were drawn from these three schools as the members of the pilot group.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
A number equal to one hundred thirty
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'one hundred thirty' is fully compositional: its value is the sum of its constituents (1×100 + 30), so knowing 'one', 'hundred', and 'thirty' directly yields the meaning 130. This numeric construction is rule-governed and cross-linguistically common, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the parts.
Etymology
The number one hundred thirty comes from joining one hundred and thirty into one name. Imagine one big pile of 100 coins (one hundred) plus three piles of 10 coins (thirty); together they make '130', so the phrase simply names that number.