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Definition of Four Hundred
1. Adjective. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
2. Noun. The exclusive social set of a city.
Group relationships: Beau Monde, Bon Ton, High Society, Smart Set, Society
Definition of Four Hundred
1. Numeral. (cardinal) The cardinal number occurring after three hundred ninety-nine and before four hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 400. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Four Hundred
Literary usage of Four Hundred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"ury, three thousand dollars ; for chief clerk, two thousand dollars ; eight clerks
of class four, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars; sixteen clerks of ..."
2. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"The Four Hundred were instituted as merely a provisional government, ... The Five
Thousand were to meet only when summoned by the Four Hundred, ..."
3. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"An article in the New Orleans "Times-Democrat," based upon reports of able
engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"said sum of forty-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-six fVs dollars, with
interest, as hereinbefore claimed, became due by and exigible from said city. ..."
5. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"... in section twenty-two; west half and southeast quarter of section thirty-five,
one thousand four hundred and forty acres. In township thirty-two, ..."
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