101

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʌnˌoʊ̯ˈwʌn/

• Audio (US):

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Etymology 1

From the practice in US colleges of numbering courses, the initial (introductory) course normally being numbered "101"

Adjective

101 (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US, postpositive) Basic, beginner, starting from scratch.

   Geology 101 tells us that you can't build a reservoir on sandstone.

   • 2004, Daniel Dor, From Englishization to Imposed Multilingualism: Globalization, the Internet, and the Political Economy of the Linguistic Code (in Public Culture volume 16 issue 1)

     Companies sell directories, databases, reports, translation services, automatic translation software, and guidebooks for doing business away from home, which, in some cases, look much like simplified textbooks for Anthropology 101.

Translations

basic, beginner-

• Czech: začátečnický m, základní (cs)
• Esperanto: enkonduka, baza
• Finnish: alkeet (fi) pl, alkeis-
• German: Einführung (de), Einmaleins (de) n, für Anfänger (de) f
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• Japanese: 入門 (ja) (nyūmon)
• Polish: podstawy f pl, początkujący (pl) m, od początku, abc (pl)
• Swedish: abc (sv) c or n (noun)
• Vietnamese: nhập môn (vi)

Etymology 2

Symbolizing more than 100, an already large number.

Pronunciation

• There is a difference in pronunciation depending on the person. Many people still use "one hundred and one", which also applies to almost all numbers after 101. However, it is becoming common to hear the "and" omitted, simply "one hundred one".

Number

101

1. An arbitrary large number. Used especially in book titles.
   • 1996, Samela Harris, “Introduction”, in On a Shoestring: Recipes from the House of the Raising Sons, Wakefield Press, →ISBN, page vii:

     [T]o offset the massive cost of learning 101 ways to embellish spatchcock, perhaps the readers may need 101 ways to cook two-minute noodles.

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