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Definition of Five-hundredth
1. Adjective. The ordinal number of five hundred in counting order.
Definition of Five-hundredth
1. Adjective. The ordinal form of the number five hundred. ¹
2. Noun. The person or thing in the five-hundredth position. ¹
3. Noun. One of five hundred equal parts of a whole. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Five-hundredth
Literary usage of Five-hundredth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of Cambridge by Charles Henry Cooper, John William Cooper (1908)
"On the 23rd of December, the five hundredth anniversary of the foundation of
Trinity Hall was celebrated by a dinner in the Hall of that College. ..."
2. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
""My purpose now is to say that Professor Wenckebach of Vienna wrote to me some
months ago to say that he had completed his five-hundredth necropsy on cases ..."
3. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, John Radford Young, Wm S Orr, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1856)
"A sheet of common writing paper has a thickness of about the five-hundredth part
of an inch. A pound of cotton can be spun into a thread seventy-five miles ..."
4. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"For although the twentieth (say) of one set is not perceptibly bigger than the
twentieth ring of the other set, ike five-hundredth of one set is perceptibly ..."
5. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1873)
"The blood of an ox preserved for ten days was inoculated into five rabbits in
doses of a tenth, a fiftieth, a hundredth, a five-hundredth, and a thousandth ..."
6. The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour (St by William Thompson (1904)
"... therefore, may be presumed to have taken place in October, 1408, the FIVE
HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY of which will occur five years hence (October, 1908). ..."
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