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Definition of Five hundred

1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five.

2. Adjective. Denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units.

3. Noun. A card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand.

Definition of Five hundred

1. Numeral. (cardinal) The cardinal number occurring after four hundred ninety-nine and before five hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 500. Ordinal: five-hundredth. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Five Hundred

five-second delay five-second rule five-spice powder five-spot five-star five-to five-tool player five-tool players five-twenties five Ks

five and dime five card stud five dollar bill five finger discount five finger exercise five hundred (current term) five iron five lemma five o'clock five o'clock shadow

five o'clock shadows five of a kind five past five pillars five second delay five second rule five senses five spice powder five thousand five to

Literary usage of Five hundred

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"For interest on five hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum per annum, for education, support of the government, and other beneficial purposes, ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... and permanent society ; and the cathedrals of Constantinople 9T and Carthage M maintained their peculiar establishment of five hundred ..."

3. Report by Maharashtra (India) Committee on Teacher Education in Maharashtra State (1884)
"In 1877 it was one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine (1599). ... In the class Developmental, the number of decedents was five hundred and twenty-eight ..."

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