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noun Cards.

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

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Origin of five hundred

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20

Words nearby five hundred

five-faced bishop, five-finger, fivefold, five-gaited, five hole, five hundred, five hundred rummy, five Ks, five-legged, Five Nations, Five Nations Championship

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How to use five hundred in a sentence

“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
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The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
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The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.
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After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
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A hundred ultra-wealthy liberal and conservative donors have taken over the political system.
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The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
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I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
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It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
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So much were they surprised at our undauntedness, that they retired about a hundred roods from us.
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Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
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British Dictionary definitions for five hundred

five hundred

noun

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

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