Two Hundred

Definition: Two Hundred

Two Hundred

Adjective

1. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Two Hundred

Crosswords: Two Hundred

And there, a mechanical wonder allowed me to see the sun rise for the first time in two hundred years. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Two hundred dollars. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive of both you and me? (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

Two hundred pairs of eyes are focused on you with two questions on their minds: who's this girl, and why is the President dancing with her? (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

If they want to disregard two hundred years of human bing-bang, that's their privilege. (Brigadoon; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner)

Two hundred million guns are loaded (RUN THROUGH THE JUNGLE; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Go directly, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dolla's. (We Will All Go Together When We Go; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents? (references; author: unknown)

Tea for Two Hundred (1948)

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Books

• Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925 (reference)

• Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout, and Period (reference)

• Italian Cheese: Two Hundred Traditional Types: A Guide to Their Discovery and Appreciation (reference)

• I'm Back for More Cash: A Tony Kornheiser Collection (Because You Can't Take Two Hundred Newspapers into the Bathroom) (reference)

• Secular Saints: Two Hundred Fifty Canonized and Beatified Lay Men, Women and Children (reference)

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USS Birmingham (CL-62), at left, and a destroyer pull away from USS Princeton (CVL-23) following the big explosion that destroyed the carrier's stern at about 1523 hrs. on 24 October 1944. This blast killed over two hundred men aboard Birmingham, which was alongside Princeton fighting fires. Note the light smoke over Birmingham's midships and stern areas. Princeton's stern, and a good deal of her after superstructure, has been blown off. Credit: NAVY.

Two hundred coolie boys we want and twenty sampans wide. Credit: Library of Congress.

Presentation of two hundred battle-flags to Governor Fenton at Albany, New York, July 4, 1865 / sketched by Theodore R. Davis. Credit: Library of Congress.

Burning of the steamer Stonewall, on the Mississippi River, October 28th, during which upward of two hundred lives were lost. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two hundred pound halibut. Credit: Library of Congress.

The annual barrel rolling contest. Each barrel has two hundred pounds in it. Presque Isle, Maine. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farm of R.W. Cassidy, Putney, Vermont. He owns about two hundred acres. Has lived there about seventeen years. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barns on R.W. Cassidy's farm, Putney, Vermont. He owns about two hundred acres, has lived here about seventeen years. Credit: Library of Congress.

Eleanor, West Virginia. Two hundred forty-four children attend the grade school of the Red House farms project barracks, supervised by eight teachers furnished by the county. Grade children are transported in the project trucks. Credit: Library of Congress.

C.N. Roberts who owns his own farm near Roseville, brought his cotton to the Lassiter gin in Knightdale, Wake County, North Carolina. This gin which is operated by Mr. Faison has ginned only two hundred and fifty bales of cotton this season and doesn't ex. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He had read somewhere that the Eskimos had over two hundred different words for snow, without which their conversation would probably have got very monotonous.

But! I gave you the candlesticks also, which are silver like the rest, and would bring two hundred francs.

Two hundred years ago.

Nothing over two hundred fifty.

The next morning at sunrise we continued our march, and arrived within two hundred yards of the city gates about noon.

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Business

Approximately two hundred workers have been trained in this type of construction. (references)

UL has four laboratories in the United States and more than two hundred inspection centers, including 90 in 68 foreign countries. (references)

Two hundred companies are engaged in the manufacturing of fiber and particle board, impregnating and laminating for uses other than plywood. (references)

Political Economy

Bahrain

Bahrain is governed as a traditional emirate, under the Al Khalifa family, which has ruled the country for over two hundred years. (references)

Trade

Philippines

The office is fully integrated into the U.S. Commercial Service - a network of over two hundred offices worldwide whose mission is to promote U.S. exports. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

dy qind. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مائتان. (various references)

Asturian

doscientos. (various references)

Aymara

päpataca. (various references)

Bemba

imyanda ibili. (various references)

Breton

daou-c'hant. (various references)

Bulgarian 

двеста. (various references)

Cebuano

duha ka gatus. (various references)

Chamorro

dos sientos. (various references)

Chinese 

二百 (200), 兩百 . (various references)

Czech

dvì stì. (various references)

Dutch

tweehonderd. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

ishcai patsac. (various references)

Esperanto

ducent. (various references)

Faeroese

tvey hundrað. (various references)

Finnish

kaksisataa. (various references)

French

deux cents, deux cent. (various references)

Frisian

twa hûndert. (various references)

German

zweihundert. (various references)

Greek 

διακόσια. (various references)

Hebrew 

מאתים. (various references)

Hungarian

kétszáz. (various references)

Italian

duecento. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

二百 (200). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にひゃく (200). (various references)

Kongo

nkama zole. (various references)

Macedonian

dvesta. (various references)

Maori

rua rau. (various references)

Mohawk

tekeni-tewn'nyawer. (various references)

Papiamen

doshen. (various references)

Pig Latin

otway undredhay

Polish

dwieście. (various references)

Portuguese

duzentos. (various references)

Provencal

dos cent. (various references)

Romany

dòoyshel. (various references)

Ruanda

amajana abiri. (various references)

Russian 

двести. (various references)

Samoan

luaselau. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dve stotine. (various references)

Sicilian

ducentu. (various references)

Spanish

doscientos. (various references)

Swahili

mia -wili, mia mbili. (various references)

Swedish

tvåhundra, två hundra. (various references)

Turkish

iki yüz. (various references)

Welsh

dau gant. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: undertow.

-3 letters: drowned, hounded, hounder, hundred, outdrew, redound, rewound, rounded, thorned, throned, thunder, trodden, underdo, worthed, wounded.

-4 letters: dehorn, dehort, detour, downed, downer, droned, drouth, drownd, dunted, durned, enduro, hodden, horded, horned, hornet, hunted, hunter, nodder, nother, redout, rodent, rotund, routed, tenour, thoued, throne, thrown, toured, trowed, turned, undoer, undrew, untrod, whored, wonder.