one hundred fifteen
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- US
:
ciento quince
- The temperature soared to one hundred fifteen degrees during the heatwave.
- one hundred fifteen miles
- one hundred fifteen miles an hour
- one hundred fifteen years
Examples
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U.S.: one hundred fifteen thousand men dead.
Fiction book (1992) -
One hundred fifteen participants completed both experimental sessions; the remaining seven participants either could not attend the second session or did not complete their ratings or attitude measures.
Academic text (1998) -
On the stairs leading to the lobby, Farias could see the figure of a very old woman (she could be eighty years old or one hundred fifteen; it didn't make any difference), trembling slightly but not stooping at all.
Fiction book (1997) -
The athlete ran at a speed of one hundred fifteen miles per hour in the race.
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The report indicated that one hundred fifteen countries participated in the global summit.
Synonyms
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A number that is one hundred fifteen
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a regular numeral composition: 'one' + 'hundred' + 'fifteen' combines via the standard English number formation to yield 115. A B1 learner who knows the constituent numerals can straightforwardly compute the value, and this compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and predictable.
Etymology
One hundred fifteen simply names a group of one hundred things plus fifteen more. Imagine a box of one hundred apples with fifteen extra on top, so it means the 'number' 115.