hundreds and thousands
EN → TR
Tanım
•An indefinite but emphatically large number.
•Tiny balls or strands of multicoloured sugar, sprinkled over ice cream, desserts or party foods.
Diğer Dillerde
İtalyancacentinaia di migliaia
Arapçaآلافٌ مُؤَلَّفَة
Afrikancahonderde duisende
Etimoloji
PIE word *ḱm̥tóm From hundreds + and + thousands. Sense 2 (“tiny balls or strands of multicoloured sugar”) is from the fact that the confectionery is made up of numerous sugar pieces.
Örnek Cümleler
Dönemleri 100 gün ile birkaç yıl arasındadır.
This will occur on a time scale of hundreds and thousands of years.
Ama mercan bizi yüzlerce binlerce yıl geriye götürebiliyor.
The coral can take us back hundreds and thousands of years.