five hundred

English

English numbers (edit)
5,000
 ←  400 500 600  → 
50
    Cardinal: five hundred
    Ordinal: five-hundredth
    Abbreviated ordinal: 500th

Alternative forms

  • Arabic numerals: 500 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
  • Roman numerals: D
  • Exponential notation: 5 × 102

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹəd/, /ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/
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Numeral

five hundred

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

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

five hundred (countable and uncountable, plural five hundreds)

  1. (countable) A note worth 500 units of some currency.
    Synonym: (chiefly UK) monkey
  2. (uncountable, card games) A trick-taking card game with elements of euchre and bridge.
    • 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 194:
      Gallipoli von Kessler asked him if he had thought of playing five hundred, saying that though some people said that five hundred was perhaps a brainier game than crib, he didn’t necessarily agree, but it might be more Rooster’s fancy. It was really bridge without the bad company.