one hundred and one

English

Etymology

From one +‎ hundred +‎ and +‎ one.

Pronunciation

Determiner

one hundred and one

  1. (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:
      [T]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

  • 101, a hundred and one

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