five_hundred
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[ adjective ] denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
Used in print (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)`` We 've got Father and Mother and each_other , '' said Beth on the first page of Louisa_Alcott 's Little_Women ; and , `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '' , burst_out Jo some five_hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family , which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; and the Szold family , as it developed , bore a striking resemblance to the Marches . (Dell Shannon, The Ace of Spades....)I bring you the cash , say five_hundred for ten decks . (Donald J. Plantz, Sweeney Squadron....)Each plane carried two five-hundred pound bombs . He dropped_down to five_hundred feet , swinging a_little north of the city of Tacloban , and punched into the opening that showed against the mountain . (Jay Williams, The Forger....)I had studied with Burns ten years before , during the scholarship year the Manhattan gave me , along with the five-hundred dollar prize for my paintings of bums on Hudson_Street . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five
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