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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Meaning of "five hundred" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FIVE HUNDRED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FIVE HUNDRED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Five hundred is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FIVE HUNDRED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of five hundred in the English dictionary

The definition of five hundred in the dictionary is a card game for three players, with 500 points for game.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FIVE HUNDRED

five
five by five
five heads of predicables
five Ks
Five Nations
Five Nations Championship
Five Nations Tournament
five stones
Five Towns
five wits
five-a-day
five-a-side
five-a-side football
five-and-dime
five-by-five
five-day week
five-door
five-eighth
five-faced bishop
five-finger

WORDS THAT END LIKE FIVE HUNDRED

adred
considered
covered
Eadred
featured
Four Hundred
hundred
inspired
kindred
miswandred
Modred
Mordred
ordered
powdered
preferred
prepared
red
registered
required
the Four Hundred

Synonyms and antonyms of five hundred in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «five hundred» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FIVE HUNDRED

Find out the translation of five hundred to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of five hundred from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «five hundred» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

500
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

quinientos
570 millions of speakers

English

five hundred
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पांच सौ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خمسمائة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пятисот
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quinhentos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাঁচশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cinq cents
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

lima ratus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fünfhundert
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

500
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오백
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

limang atus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

năm trăm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஐநூறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाचशे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

beş yüz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cinquecento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pięćset
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

п´ятисот
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cinci sute
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πεντακόσια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vyf honderd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

femhundra
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fem hundre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of five hundred

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FIVE HUNDRED»

The term «five hundred» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.113 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FIVE HUNDRED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «five hundred» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «five hundred» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about five hundred

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10 QUOTES WITH «FIVE HUNDRED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word five hundred.
1
Chinua Achebe
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
2
Brooks Adams
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
3
A. R. Ammons
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
4
Thomas Bulfinch
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.
5
William Allen Butler
But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
6
Charles II
You had better have one King than five hundred.
7
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
8
Hernan Cortes
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
9
Mario Diaz-Balart
President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.
10
Martin H. Fischer
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIVE HUNDRED»

Discover the use of five hundred in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to five hundred and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Fairy Godmother
Who promptly offered Elena a most unexpected job.... Now, instead of sleeping in the chimney, she has to deal with arrogant, stuffed-shirt princes who keep trying to rise above their place in the tale.
Mercedes Lackey, 2010
2
Five Hundred Years After
This is the story of the conspiracy against the Empire that begins in the mean streets of the Underside and flourishes in the courtly politics of the Palace where Khaavren has loyally served in the Guards this past half-millennium.
Steven Brust, 2009
3
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to ...
A brief description of each building, which highlights its distinctive features and places it in historical context, is included at the back of the book.
John Storey, Martha Storey, 2011
4
Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago ...
Explores the history, religion, art, and politics behind the history of sincerity, spanning a timeline dotted with Protestant theology, paintings by the insane, French satire, and the anti-hipster movement.
R. Jay Magill, 2012
5
Five Hundred Fun Facts About Japan
This book offers hundreds of entertaining facts about the Japanese people, including their culture & their history, which has spanned nearly 2,000 years.
DIANE Publishing Company, Dorothy Perkins, 1994
6
Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges
Contains 500 problems ranging over a wide spectrum of mathematics and of levels of difficulty.
Edward Barbeau, W. O. J. Moser, 1995
7
Fleet Street: five hundred years of the press
This book talks about political opinion, commercial opportunism, technological advances, price wars, satisfying the thirst for news, the influence of editors, great feature writers, gossip columnists, advertising campaigns, and more.This ...
Dennis Griffiths, 2006
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The World System: Five Hundred Years Or Five Thousand?
The historic long-term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the 'world system' advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period.
Andre Gunder Frank, Barry K. Gills, 1996
9
Mayday at Two Thousand Five Hundred
Fourteen-year-old Jay Cooper is enjoying the view from his Uncle Rex's Cessna when a low-flying 757 speeds past them.
Frank Peretti, 1998
10
Five Hundred and One English Verbs
Presents the most common regular and irregular English verbs alphabetically arranged in table form, one verb per page and completely conjugated in all tenses.
Thomas R. Beyer, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIVE HUNDRED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term five hundred is used in the context of the following news items.
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Praise for DkIT Sport as 35 jobs revealed
Five hundred applications were received for the 35 jobs announced on Monday at DkIT Sport, located in the former JJB site, which has been ... «The Argus, Jul 15»
2
Competing at home adds a new dimension to the Pan Am Games for …
It's going to be so cool to get a crowd of five hundred cheering for me and Team Canada. Pan Ams will be our continental qualifier for Rio so it ... «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
3
Charity Tax Fight
We were there Friday afternoon when two deputy tax collectors came to the Jackson Convention Center to collect five hundred dollars cash. «Mississippi News Now, Jul 15»
4
Greece? No, It's All Of Us
... it's important to remember that they are nothing new, have been going on for a long time – some would say for five hundred years though in ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
5
Forbes: back in control in her new role
There's no shame in 300,000 people watching the show, and that's before it was peaking at four or five hundred thousand." Yet Campbell Live ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
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Christian Rapper Trip Lee on Porn: Shocking to Find Young …
[They] could have looked at porn every day for the last five hundred days and Jesus has not run out of grace. That same cross that you heard ... «Christian Post, Jul 15»
7
Idaho dollar goes a long way
... California where you might pay four to five hundred thousand dollars for a single family home in the same category, it's a huge difference. «KMVT, Jul 15»
8
Summer Reading: Marriage and Sexuality Edition
Witte, Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, takes the reader through twenty-five hundred years of ... «Catholic World Report, Jul 15»
9
N8bn CBN Scam: EFCC Alleges Ploy To Frustrate Prosecution
... five hundred and thirty-five naira, on the false pretence that the 142 boxes containing supposed mutilated currencies which were taken to the ... «Leadership Newspapers, Jul 15»
10
Whisky Trail
Five hundred bottles of a super-smoky Ledaig Dusgadh (Gaelic for 'reawakening') have been released, at £3,500 a bottle, to commemorate ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»

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