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THREE HUNDRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one hundred more than two hundred
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
“There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in notes,” he said.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Signor Zamba is an invalid, and our new friend Castalotte has all power within the firm, which employs more than three hundred men.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Thus as my predecessor weakened his practice declined, until when I purchased it from him it had sunk from twelve hundred to little more than three hundred a year.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Three hundred and sixty of these artificial leaves covering a 500-meter square area would be able to reduce carbon dioxide levels by 10 percent in the surrounding air within 100 meters of the array in one day.
(Artificial Leaves Convert CO2 to Fuel 10 Times More Efficient Than Nature, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Well, it was printed, and she got three hundred dollars for it, likewise plenty of praise and blame, both so much greater than she expected that she was thrown into a state of bewilderment from which it took her some time to recover.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Most important of all, in view of the dangers which might surround us, we had our four rifles and one thousand three hundred rounds, also a shot-gun, but not more than a hundred and fifty medium pellet cartridges.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Edward had two thousand pounds, and Elinor one, which, with Delaford living, was all that they could call their own; for it was impossible that Mrs. Dashwood should advance anything; and they were neither of them quite enough in love to think that three hundred and fifty pounds a-year would supply them with the comforts of life.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Miss Nash, head-teacher at Mrs. Goddard's, had written out at least three hundred; and Harriet, who had taken the first hint of it from her, hoped, with Miss Woodhouse's help, to get a great many more.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Now, right before us the anchorage was bounded by a plateau from two to three hundred feet high, adjoining on the north the sloping southern shoulder of the Spy-glass and rising again towards the south into the rough, cliffy eminence called the Mizzen-mast Hill.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Even at Friar’s Oak we had heard how, in the little Speedy, of fourteen small guns with fifty-four men, he had carried by boarding the Spanish frigate Gamo with her crew of three hundred.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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