five hundred
117
1.0
- numeral
:
quinientos
- The charity raised five hundred dollars for the local animal shelter.
- five hundred years
- five hundred thousand
- five hundred dollars
Examples
-
Five hundred pages of it.
-
Hilly land suitable for grain production sold for five hundred dollars an acre.
Academic text (1996) -
If I get five hundred approved... are we closed?
-
The fellow at the gas station wants to give me five hundred for it.
Fiction book (1990) -
So what 'bout my five hundred dollars, huh?
-
Did you know when I was a child we had pretty near five hundred rabbits?
Fiction book (1991) -
The agency that I ran, OERI, had some five hundred employees and a budget of about $450 million.
Academic text (1995) -
Stevens decided to be generous and dropped five hundred new lire in the box.
Fiction book (1991) -
Moscow also agreed to train five hundred Kazakhstani officers per year at its various military academies.
Academic text (1996) -
Cycling became very popular, and in 1896 there were already five hundred cyclists in Guatemala City.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A number equal to five hundred
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'five hundred' is compositionally the number 500 from 'five' + 'hundred', so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will interpret it as a numeral rather than a card game. The game name is an arbitrary lexicalized label (a proper noun for a specific card game) whose meaning cannot be inferred from the numeric constituents, making it non-compositional for learners.
Etymology
Five hundred is the name for five groups of hundred; it means the number '500', so we use it when we count five groups of one hundred.