HUNDRED THOUSAND

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hundred thousand mean? 

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

1. the cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten

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

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

1. (in Roman numerals, C written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 100,000 items or units

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNDRED THOUSAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

100000; hundred thousand; lakh

Hypernyms ("hundred thousand" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• HUNDRED THOUSAND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(in Roman numerals, C written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 100,000 items or units

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

They are the dominant group of animals on earth, several hundred thousand different kinds having been described.

(Insect, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A unit of measurement equal to one hundred thousand entities per unit of area equal to one high powered field.

(Hundred Thousand per High Powered Field, NCI Thesaurus)

She had spent ten thousand centuries—ay, a hundred thousand and a million centuries—upon the task, and he was the best she could do.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There's seven hundred thousand pound not a quarter of a mile from here.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have heard that Montpezat is of no great strength, and that there are two hundred thousand crowns in the castle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nearly a hundred thousand pounds’ worth of American railway bonds, with a large amount of scrip in other mines and companies, was discovered in the bag.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The town is capable of holding five hundred thousand souls: the houses are from three to five stories: the shops and markets well provided.

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

He prices the lot at a minimum of two hundred thousand pounds.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, since I know it is all true, a hundred thousand times more do I know that he must pass through the bitter waters to reach the sweet.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And it is this letter—this letter which may well mean the expenditure of a thousand millions and the lives of a hundred thousand men—which has become lost in this unaccountable fashion.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)