500th

Definition: 500th

500th

Adjective

1. The ordinal number of five hundred in counting order.

Synonym: 500th

Synonym: five-hundredth (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: 500th

English words defined with "500th": quincentenary, quincentennial. (references)

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Modern Usage: 500th

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	But I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)
Movie/TV Titles	The Siskel & Ebert 500th Anniversary Special (1989)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: 500th

Domain	Title
Books	The temperate voluptuary : freely rendered from Platina's cookbook on its 500th Anniversary (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: 500th

"Metal stairs" by Philip Jackson
Commentary: "I've made the black absolute so you can put text over it, stretch it and so on esaily. The low sun made a sihoette like this easy and the black was pretty black anyway, taken at like 500th. mexikids commented that they liked negative space for text. voila"

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Usage Frequency: 500th

"500th" is generally used as an ordinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "500th" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)