FIVE HUNDRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does five hundred mean? 

• FIVE HUNDRED (noun)
  The noun FIVE HUNDRED has 2 senses:

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

2. 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

  Familiarity information: FIVE HUNDRED used as a noun is rare.

• FIVE HUNDRED (adjective)
  The adjective FIVE HUNDRED has 1 sense:

1. denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units

  Familiarity information: FIVE HUNDRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIVE HUNDRED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

500; D; five hundred

Hypernyms ("five hundred" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

euchre; five hundred

Hypernyms ("five hundred" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

• FIVE HUNDRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units

Synonyms:

500; d; five hundred

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4½ per cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can only touch the interest.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Then we came to the Black Rock, which rose five hundred feet above the trail.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This has involved me in extra trouble, however, and I must ask you for a further advance of five hundred pounds.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know them with their puttied seams and their devil bolts, risking five hundred lives that they may steal a few pounds’ worth of copper.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My heart leaped with gladness, for I knew what he had in mind, and I gave him the bearings—west-north-west, and five hundred miles away.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I would willingly give five hundred,” said the J.P., taking the slip of paper and the pencil which Holmes handed to him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are free-lances, you know, who earn as much as four or five hundred a month.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“It is over the fifth!” cried a Gascon loudly, and a comrade came running with waving arms to say that the bolt had pitched eight paces beyond the mark of the five hundred.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)