Definitions for FIVE
faɪvfive

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebenoun

   the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

2. basketball team, fivenoun

   a team that plays basketball

3. five-spot, fiveadjective

   a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips

4. five, 5, vadjective

   being one more than four

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fivenoun

   The digit/figure 5.

   He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.

2. fivenoun

   A five-dollar bill.

   Can anyone here change a five?

3. fivenoun

   Anything measuring five units, as length.

   All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.

4. fivenoun

   A person who is five years old.

   The fives and sixes will have snack first, then the older kids.

5. fivenoun

   five o'clock

   See you at five.

6. fivenoun

   A short rest, especially one of five minutes.

   Take five, soldier.

7. Etymology: from fif, from fimf (compare West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf), from pénkʷe (compare Welsh pump, Italian cinque, Tocharian A/B päñ/piś, Lithuanian penkì, Russian, Albanian pesë, Ancient Greek, Armenian հինգ, Persian, Sanskrit páñca).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FIVEadjective

   Four and one; half of ten.

   Etymology: fif, Saxon.

   And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Mat.

   No person, no incident, but must be of use to carry on the main design: all things else are like six fingers to the hand, when nature, which is superfluous in nothing, can do her work with five. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

   Five herds, five bleating flocks, his pastures fill’d;
   His lands a hundred yoke of oxen till’d. John Dryden, Æn.

   Our British youth lose their figure by that time they are five and twenty. Joseph Addison, Guardian, №. 111.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Five

   5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. five

   Five is a cardinal number that represents the quantity or count of objects, elements, or individuals in a set, group, or sequence. It is commonly written as the numeral "5" and comes after four and before six in the numerical order.

2. Five

   Five is a numerical value representing the quantity or count of five individual entities. It is the fifth cardinal number in the natural number sequence, following four and preceding six.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fiveadjective

   four and one added; one more than four

2. Fivenoun

   the number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects

3. Fivenoun

   a symbol representing this number, as 5, or V

4. Etymology: [OE. fif, five, AS. ff, ffe; akin to D. vijf, OS. ff, OHG. finf, funf, G. fnf, Icel. fimm, Sw. & Sw. Dan. fem, Goth. fimf, Lith. penki, W. pump, OIr. cic, L. quinque, Gr. pe`nte, ol. pe`mpe, Skr. pacan. 303. Cf. Fifth, Cinque, Pentagon, Punch the drink, Quinary.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Five

   fīv, adj. and n. four and one.—n. Five′-fing′er, a name for various plants (cinque-foil, oxlip, &c.): a species of starfish.—adj. Five′fold, five times folded, or repeated in fives.—ns. Fiv′er (coll.), a five-pound note; Five′-square (B.), having five corners or angles.—Five Articles, Five Points, statements of the distinctive doctrines of the Arminians and Calvinists respectively—the former promulgated in 1610, the latter sustained by the Synod of Dort in 1619 (see Calvinism).—Bunch of fives, the fist. [A.S. fíf; Ger. fünf; Goth. fimf; W. pump; L. quinque; Gr. pente, pempe; Sans. pancha.]

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1. • Digit
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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'FIVE' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #293

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'FIVE' in Written Corpus Frequency: #116

How to pronounce FIVE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say FIVE in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of FIVE in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of FIVE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of FIVE in a Sentence

1. Evan Matthews:

   Walking for five minutes every hour goes a long way, it doesn't need to even be moderate intensity. Just move.

2. Alexandros Vassilikos:

   We cannot look at things negatively. We must look at things creatively. If you do not find a job today the way you did five or ten years ago, that means you need to change the way you are looking as well.

3. Trent Baggett:

   It’s not envisioned to be a circumstance where there’s going to be a camera every five miles down the road on every single road in Oklahoma, we anticipate having them moved around the state and they would be in some fairly high-traffic areas. It doesn’t do a whole lot of good to have one of these set up in a place where there’s not a lot of traffic.

4. George Gordon Byron:

   I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five

5. President Trump:

   Do you want to do it in five years when they have warheads all over the place, every one of them pointing to New York City, to Washington and every one of us, is that when you want to do it, or do you want to do something now? you'd better do it now. And if they think you're serious … they'll negotiate and it'll never come to that.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=FIVE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Five
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=FIVE
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/FIVE
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=FIVE