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Vinony

five hundred

noun

  1. fifty times ten; half of a thousand
  2. variety of euchre in which a game has 500 points
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ / /ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/ / /ˈfaɪv ˈhʊndɹəd/

noun

  1. A note worth 500 units of some currency.
  2. A trick-taking card game with elements of euchre and bridge.

    “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.”

num

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