FOUR HUNDRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Four Hundred mean? 

• FOUR HUNDRED (noun)
  The noun FOUR HUNDRED has 1 sense:

1. the exclusive social set of a city

  Familiarity information: FOUR HUNDRED used as a noun is very rare.

• FOUR HUNDRED (adjective)
  The adjective FOUR HUNDRED has 1 sense:

1. being one hundred more than three hundred

  Familiarity information: FOUR HUNDRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOUR HUNDRED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The exclusive social set of a city

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Four Hundred" is a kind of...):

band; circle; lot; set (an unofficial association of people or groups)

Holonyms ("Four Hundred" is a member of...):

beau monde; bon ton; high society; smart set; society (the fashionable elite)

• FOUR HUNDRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one hundred more than three hundred

Synonyms:

400; cd; four hundred

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

Mycroft draws four hundred and fifty pounds a year, remains a subordinate, has no ambitions of any kind, will receive neither honour nor title, but remains the most indispensable man in the country.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He hired a large room between three and four hundred feet wide.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Six per cent—six times seven—four hundred an' twenty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“If four hundred men must needs run a tilt against sixty thousand, I cannot see how they can do it better or more safely.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Four hundred years after Newton, University of Cambridge researchers have overcome this challenge to produce a system up to a thousand times smaller than those previously reported.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

Four hundred is but a small income to begin on indeed, but your wishes, my dear Isabella, are so moderate, you do not consider how little you ever want, my dear.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Any place would do, of about three or four hundred a year; but however, do not speak to Mr. Darcy about it, if you had rather not.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

With four hundred miles of trail still between him and Dawson, he could ill afford to have madness break out among his dogs.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She says, 'That is four hundred and fifty dollars a month.'

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He had cut through a bulkhead unobserved and had removed one of the sacks of coin, worth perhaps three or four hundred guineas, to help him on his further wanderings.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)