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Hundred thousand

noun

The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten. Synonyms: 100000, lakh.

adjective

(in Roman numerals, C written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 100,000 items or units.

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... these premises every day. They come here, hat in hand, from morning till night, asking to be treated; and after dark they form a Topic Line at our door, begging for the merest pittance of a notice, for the slightest allusion, for the most cursory mention. Do you know that there are at least two hundred thousand subjects in this town out of a job now? If you have got a subject, you had better take it to the country press; the New York magazines and reviews are overstocked with them; the newspapers, morning and evening, are simply inundated with ...

— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells

... Germany had to mourn the loss of more than a hundred thousand of her children, was the consequence of Luther's preaching. It is fortunate that, through the efforts of a Catholic prince, Duke George of Saxony, it was speedily brought to an end. Had it lasted but a few years ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9 • Various

... miles. For distances above 3000 miles the rate is ten cents, or five pence. This increased rate has special reference to the mails for California, which are carried daily across the whole continent at a cost to the States government of two hundred thousand pounds a year. ...

— Volume 2 • Anthony Trollope

... 7 An hundred thousand oaths your fears, Perhaps, would not remove; And if I gazed a thousand years, I could ...

— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... the American Civil Commission in 1900, to the effect that the Katipunan Society members invaded the parishes only to murder the friars and rob the churches, should be weighed against the fact that two hundred thousand Filipinos were ready to leave glowing life for grim death to rid the country of monastic rule. The townspeople, apparently apathetic, were afraid to express their opinion of the friars until they were backed up by the physical force of the Katipunan legions. ...

— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman

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