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two-hundredth

two-hundredth

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Number two hundred in a list
  • adjective
  • /tuː ˈhʌndrədθ/
translation icon : doscientésimo
  • "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

  • 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.

  • They celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary of their founding with a grand event.

  • The marathon was held in honor of the city's two-hundredth year of incorporation.

Synonyms

200th
vstwo-hundredth
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In the position after one hundred and ninety-nine others in a list

uses words to show the same ordinal in a spelled out form

Surface Forms

two-hundredth positive

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.