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five

[ fahyv ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, four plus one.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 5 or V.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.
  4. a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with five pips.
  5. Informal. a five-dollar bill:

    Can you give me two fives for a ten?



adjective

  1. amounting to five in number.

five

/ faɪv /

noun

  1. the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
  2. a numeral, 5, V, etc, representing this number
  3. the amount or quantity that is one greater than four
  4. something representing, represented by, or consisting of five units, such as a playing card with five symbols on it
“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


determiner

    1. amounting to five

      five nights

      five minutes

    2. ( as pronoun ) penta-quinque-

      choose any five you like

“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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of five1

before 1000; 1925–30 five fordef 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of five1

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

Idioms
  1. take five, Informal. to take a brief respite.

More idioms and phrases containing five

see take five .
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Example Sentences

“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.

The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.

After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.

I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.

Before 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.

At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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