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  • adjective postpositive Basic, beginner, starting from scratch.
  • noun The number one hundred and one, which is one hundred plus one.
  • noun A thoroughly large number. Used especially in book titles.

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  • adjective being one more than one hundred

Etymologies

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From the practice in US colleges of numbering courses, the initial course normally ending in 101

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Symbolizing more than 100, an already large number.

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