five
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?
amounting to five in number.
Idioms about five
take five, Informal. to take a brief respite.
Origin of five
1Words Nearby five
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How to use five in a sentence
“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
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After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone | Samantha Levine | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST“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.
Glances at Europe | Horace Greeleyfive of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayBefore daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.
These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing | Richard Duckworth and Fabian StedmanAt length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
The Boarded-Up House | Augusta Huiell Seaman
British Dictionary definitions for five
/ (faɪv) /
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
amounting to five: five minutes; five nights
(as pronoun): choose any five you like Related prefixes: penta-, quinque-
Origin of five
1- See also fives
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with five
see take five.
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