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TWO HUNDRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being ten more than one hundred ninety
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Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
Two hundred deer and more came running inside the circle at once, and the huntsmen shot them.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Fewer than two hundred showed up at the gates of the base, but no one tried to storm the military base.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
Now, that bird, he would say, is, maybe, two hundred years old, Hawkins—they live forever mostly; and if anybody's seen more wickedness, it must be the devil himself.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I stood upon a height about two hundred yards from the shore, and saw this vast body descending almost to a parallel with me, at less than an English mile distance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Now he is two hundred yards away. After a long time he is one hundred yards away.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Furthermore, the sled was of some service, for it carried nearly two hundred pounds of outfit and food.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The estate at Winthrop is not less than two hundred and fifty acres, besides the farm near Taunton, which is some of the best land in the country.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Their sacks were slim, and with his own the three partners could rake together only two hundred dollars.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He prices the lot at a minimum of two hundred thousand pounds.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I estimated its circumference at twenty-five miles, its width as varying from two to five miles; while my most conservative calculation placed on its beaches two hundred thousand seals.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
