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FOUR HUNDRED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The exclusive social set of a city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Four Hundred" is a kind of...):
band; circle; lot; set (an unofficial association of people or groups)
Holonyms ("Four Hundred" is a member of...):
beau monde; bon ton; high society; smart set; society (the fashionable elite)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one hundred more than three hundred
Synonyms:
400; cd; four hundred
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
There's the Reverend Horace promoted to that living at four hundred and fifty pounds a year; there are our two boys receiving the very best education, and distinguishing themselves as steady scholars and good fellows; there are three of the girls married very comfortably; there are three more living with us; there are three more keeping house for the Reverend Horace since Mrs. Crewler's decease; and all of them happy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The cliffs upon the farther side had lost their ruddy tint, being chocolate-brown in color; the vegetation was more scattered along the top of them, and they had sunk to three or four hundred feet in height, but in no place did we find any point where they could be ascended.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It came out in evidence that, in partnership with Colonel Moran, he had actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting, some weeks before, from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And still there was a large portion of the four hundred and twenty dollars unspent.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He likewise presented me with four hundred and forty-four large pieces of gold (this nation delighting in even numbers), and a red diamond, which I sold in England for eleven hundred pounds.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
From England had arrived the prince's brother, the Duke of Lancaster, with four hundred knights in his train and a strong company of archers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All were strangely shaped, and the Spy-glass, which was by three or four hundred feet the tallest on the island, was likewise the strangest in configuration, running up sheer from almost every side and then suddenly cut off at the top like a pedestal to put a statue on.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A living, of which Mr. Morland was himself patron and incumbent, of about four hundred pounds yearly value, was to be resigned to his son as soon as he should be old enough to take it; no trifling deduction from the family income, no niggardly assignment to one of ten children.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
"But in the picture there are many sun-dogs, and it comes into my mind to call it 'The Sun- Dog Trail.' It was a long time ago, seven years ago, the fall of '97, when I saw the woman first time. At Lake Linderman I had one canoe, very good Peterborough canoe. I came over Chilcoot Pass with two thousand letters for Dawson. I was letter carrier. Everybody rush to Klondike at that time. Many people on trail. Many people chop down trees and make boats. Last water, snow in the air, snow on the ground, ice on the lake, on the river ice in the eddies. Every day more snow, more ice. Maybe one day, maybe three days, maybe six days, any day maybe freeze-up come, then no more water, all ice, everybody walk, Dawson six hundred miles, long time walk. Boat go very quick. Everybody want to go boat. Everybody say, 'Charley, two hundred dollars you take me in canoe,' 'Charley, three hundred dollars,' 'Charley, four hundred dollars.' I say no, all the time I say no. I am letter carrier.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
At two cents a word, he calculated, that would bring him four hundred and twenty dollars.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
