five

[ fahyv ]

/ faɪv /

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noun

a cardinal number, four plus one.

a symbol for this number, as 5 or V.

a set of this many persons or things.

a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with five pips.

Informal. a five-dollar bill: Can you give me two fives for a ten?

adjective

amounting to five in number.

Nearby words

fitzrovia, fitzroy, fitzsimmons, fitzwilliam museum, fiume, five, five by five, five civilized nations, five hole, five hundred, five hundred rummy

Idioms

take five, Informal. to take a brief respite.

Origin of five

before 1000; 1925–30 for def 7; Middle English; Old English fīf; cognate with Dutch vijf, German fünf, Old Norse fimm, Gothic fimf, Latin quīnque, Greek pénte, Sanskrit pancha

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Examples from the Web for five

“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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“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.
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Her name is among the five abbesses who signed a charter granting church privileges at a Kentish Witanagemot.
Early Double Monasteries|Constance Stoney
This was near being the death of us both, as the two critics together would have turned the scale at near five hundred.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876.|Various
The country for five to ten miles to the east of our track appeared open and grassy, basalt being the prevailing rock.
Journals of Australian Explorations|A C and F T Gregory
It might cost five hundred pounds to find him, it might cost five thousand.
My Strangest Case|Guy Boothby
He dismissed the Master of the Taoists and ordered the five victims to be buried.
Myths and Legends of China|E. T. C. Werner

British Dictionary definitions for five

five

/ (faɪv) /

noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

a numeral, 5, V, etc, representing this number

the amount or quantity that is one greater than four

something representing, represented by, or consisting of five units, such as a playing card with five symbols on it

determiner

amounting to fivefive minutes; five nights
(as pronoun)choose any five you like Related prefixes: penta-, quinque-

Word Origin for five

Old English fīf; related to Old Norse fimm, Gothic fimf, Old High German finf, Latin quinque, Greek pente, Sanskrit pañca

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five

see take five.

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