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.

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Idioms for five

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

Words nearby five

Fitzrovia, Fitzroy, Fitzsimmons, Fitzwilliam Museum, Fiume, five, five-and-ten, five-a-side, five-by-five, Five Civilized Nations, five-eighth

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Example sentences 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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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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Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
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Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.
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These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.
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At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
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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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