one hundred and one

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

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

Translations

a great many; numerous — see thousand one

Further reading

• 101 (number) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 101 (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia