five hundred

noun

Cards.

1. a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.

five hundred

noun

1. a card game for three players, with 500 points for game

Word History and Origins

Origin of five hundred¹

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20

Example Sentences

The number of Chinese people grew from five hundred million in the 1950s to one billion just thirty years later and roughly 1.4 billion people today.

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The hotel was upgraded, doubling the number of rooms to five hundred and creating grand new facades and a new main entrance.

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Among the Exosuit’s many advantages is that it can operate efficiently between two hundred and five hundred feet below the surface.

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Five hundred people called in to hear what Eisman had to say, and another five hundred logged in afterward to listen to the recording.

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The world’s first hydrogen bomb was five hundred times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.

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