"101" meaning in English

See 101 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈwʌnˌoʊ̯ˈwʌn/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-101.ogg [US]
Etymology: From the practice in US colleges of numbering courses, the initial (introductory) course commonly being numbered "101". Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} 101 (not comparable)
  1. (chiefly US, often postpositive) Basic, beginner, starting from scratch. Tags: US, not-comparable, often, postpositional Categories (topical): English numeral symbols Translations (basic, beginner): začátečnický [masculine] (Czech), základní (Czech), úvodní (Czech), enkonduka (Esperanto), baza (Esperanto), alkeet [plural] (Finnish), alkeis- (Finnish), le b.a.-ba de [masculine] (French), l’abc de [masculine] (French), les bases de [feminine, plural] (French), élémentaire (French), Einführung (German), Einmaleins [neuter] (German), für Anfänger (German), bevezető (Hungarian), egyszeregy (Hungarian), kezdőknek (Hungarian), alapjai (Hungarian), 入門 (nyūmon) (Japanese), podstawy [feminine, plural] (Polish), początkujący [masculine] (Polish), od początku (Polish), abc (Polish), основы (osnovy) [feminine, plural] (Russian), abc [common-gender, neuter, noun] (Swedish), nhập môn (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-101-en-adj-q3k5IQz9 Disambiguation of English numeral symbols: 75 25 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Numeral

Etymology: Symbolizing more than 100, an already large number. Head templates: {{head|en|numeral symbol}} 101
  1. A large number, particularly the size of an exhaustively long list of examples, uses, applications, etc.
    Sense id: en-101-en-num-h04ZKM8S
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

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