Meaning & use
four hundred
The number equal to four times one hundred, written numerically as 400.
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The stadium can seat around four hundred people for a small concert.
She raised four hundred dollars for the animal shelter in one weekend.
A note on using this word
In late nineteenth-century New York, 'the Four Hundred' referred to high society's most prominent families, said to be the number who fit in Mrs. Astor's ballroom.
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