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FIVE HUNDRED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
euchre; five hundred
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("five hundred" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("five hundred" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
Synonyms:
500; d; five hundred
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
With the newcomers hopeless and forlorn, and the old team worn out by twenty-five hundred miles of continuous trail, the outlook was anything but bright.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Mr. Peggotty thrust forth his face; and never could I forget the change that came upon it when he saw us, if I were to live five hundred years.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You must think one five hundred million times more above me than the other.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Our numbers had been reinforced during the night by a fresh batch of natives from the caves, and we may have been four or five hundred strong when we made our advance.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Tilney was a Miss Drummond, and she and Mrs. Hughes were schoolfellows; and Miss Drummond had a very large fortune; and, when she married, her father gave her twenty thousand pounds, and five hundred to buy wedding-clothes.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I do not suppose that, when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice, he is once out of five hundred times affected by the dangers that he runs through his brutish, physical insensibility; neither had I, long as I had considered my position, made enough allowance for the complete moral insensibility and insensate readiness to evil, which were the leading characters of Edward Hyde.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then came the foremast, larger in diameter, and weighing surely thirty-five hundred pounds.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
On the fourth day, venturing out early a little too far, I saw twenty or thirty natives upon a height not above five hundred yards from me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Five hundred pounds for this particular job. Of course he has a salary as well.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
