(Ancient Greece) A short-lived oligarchy that replaced the democratic government of ancient Athens following the Athenian coup of 411 .
four hundred year trek ended by a speck of space dust no time to reminisce about Earth #Tanka for #NaTankaMo <earth> prompt
well we should definitely be paying attention to malcolm offord, who pays roughly 80 jillian pounds in tax and has four hundred boats
(Ancient Greece) A short-lived oligarchy that replaced the democratic government of ancient Athens following the Athenian coup of 411 .
"Four Hundred" means a short-lived oligarchy that replaced the democratic government of ancient athens following the athenian coup of 411 . It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
"Four Hundred" means a short-lived oligarchy that replaced the democratic government of ancient athens following the athenian coup of 411 . It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
Slang is read by different audiences for very different reasons. The For parents view re-explains the term in plain, non-judgemental language so a caregiver can understand what their child means without needing the surrounding subculture. The For English learners view focuses on register (when it's safe to use), formal alternatives, and common mistakes — what a textbook won't teach you.
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The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.
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(UK, _, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Ample; plentiful; free in giving; generous; hospitable.
(UK, _, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Having the appearance of fulness; full-looking.
(slang, US) a naive or clueless person.
(historical, slang) A rough-and-tumble working-class young woman in Lower Manhattan between the late 1840s and the American Civil War period.
"Four Hundred" is informal English meaning a short-lived oligarchy that replaced the democratic government of ancient athens following the athenian coup of 411 . It is used widely across English varieties. A more formal or neutral equivalent would be something like "a short-lived oligarchy that replaced the democratic government of ancient athens following the athenian coup of 411 " expressed in standard vocabulary. A common mistake is to assume "Four Hundred" can replace its standard equivalent in every register; keep it for spoken or casual situations and use the formal form in writing.
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(US) A list of the people in New York fashionable society during the Gilded Age.
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