101

101

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈwʌnˌoʊ̯ˈwʌn/ (one-oh-one)

• Audio (US)

  (file)

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.

   • 2003 June 22, Holly Henderson; Liz Tigelaar, “Ski Trip”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 21, Teletoon, Marathon Media, spoken by Samantha “Sam” (Jennifer Hale):

     Ugh! Crash and burn! Next year, I’m taking flirting 101! I am so not good at this!

   • 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), úvodní (cs) Esperanto: enkonduka, baza Finnish: alkeet (fi) pl, alkeis- (fi) French: le b.a.-ba de (fr) m, l'abc de (fr) m, les bases de (fr) f pl, élémentaire (fr) German: Einführung (de), Einmaleins (de) n, für Anfänger Hungarian: bevezető (hu), egyszeregy (hu), kezdőknek, alapjai 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 (outside Britain) it is becoming common to hear the "and" omitted, simply "one hundred one".

Number

101

1. A large number, particularly the size of an exhaustively long list of examples, uses, applications, etc.
   • 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.

Anagrams

• 110%, 110

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jyz ˈbiɾ/
• Hyphenation: yüz‧bir

Noun

101 (definite accusative 101'i, plural 101'ler)

1. (colloquial) Abbreviation of A101, a retail company
2. Abbreviation of okey 101, a variant of okey
   • 2021 October 30, Twitter.com‎, archived from the original on January 5, 2023:

     Ders çalışıyorum arkadaşlarım 101’e çağırıyor hadi gel de gitme

     Here I am studying and my friends are inviting me over for a game of 101 how am I supposed to resist that?