one hundred and one
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English
Etymology
From one + hundred + and + one.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˌwʌn ˌhʌndɹəd n̩ ˈwʌn/
- Rhymes: -ʌn
- Hyphenation: one hund‧red and one
Determiner
- (idiomatic) A great many; numerous.
- Synonym: one thousand and one
- 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page v. 46:
- As a result, we talked – about a hundred and one things.
- 1979, Charles Denby, Joel Denby, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker’s Journal, →ISBN, page 141:
- The company has one hundred and one reasons for keeping Negroes out. The union, too, has one hundred and one reasons.
- 1996, Samela Harris, “Introduction”, in On a Shoestring: Recipes from the House of the Raising Sons, Kent Town, Adelaide, S.A.: Wakefield Press, →ISBN, page vii:
- o offset the massive cost of learning 101 ways to embellish spatchcock, perhaps the readers may need 101 ways to cook two-minute noodles.
Alternative forms
Translations
a great many; numerous — see thousand one
Further reading
101 (number) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - 101 (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
