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 Definitions of fifth  [ɪfθ or, often, fɪθ]  

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Definition of 'fifth' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) fifth
next after the fourth; being the ordinal number for five.

2.  fifth
being one of five equal parts.

3. (n.) fifth
a fifth part, esp. of one (?).

4.  fifth
the fifth member of a series.

5.  fifth
a fifth part of a gallon of liquor; ? of a quart (about 750 milliliters).

6.  fifth
a musical interval encompassing five diatonic degrees.

7.  fifth
a tone at this interval.

8.  fifth
the harmonic combination of two tones a fifth apart.

9. (adv.) fifth
in the fifth place; fifthly.

Etymology:  (bef. 1000; earlier fift, ME fifte, OE fīfta)

Definition of 'fifth' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) fifth
a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon

2. (noun) fifth
position five in a countable series of things
"he was fifth out of several hundred runners"

3. (noun) one-fifth, fifth, fifth part, twenty percent
one part in five equal parts

4. (adj) fifth
the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it

5. (adj) fifth, 5th
coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position


Definition of 'fifth' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1.  fifth
in the number 5 position
We were fifth in line.

2.  fifth
one of 5 equal parts
a/one fifth of the pizza


Definition of 'fifth' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) fifth
next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five

2. (adj) fifth
consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing

3. (noun) fifth
the quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part

4. (noun) fifth
the interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key


Translation of 'fifth' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: one of five equal parts.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: vyfde Arabic flag Arabic: خُمْس Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: една пета
Brazilian flag Brazilian: quinto Czech flag Czech: pětina German flag German: das Fünftel
Danish flag Danish: femtedel Greek flag Greek: ένα πέμπτο Spanish flag Spanish: quinto
Estonian flag Estonian: viiendik Farsi flag Farsi: یک پنجم Finnish flag Finnish: viidesosa
French flag French: cinquième Hebrew flag Hebrew: חֲמִישִית Hindi flag Hindi: पांचवां
Croatian flag Croatian: petina Hungarian flag Hungarian: ötöd Indonesian flag Indonesian: seperlima
Icelandic flag Icelandic: fimmti (hluti) Italian flag Italian: quinto Japanese flag Japanese: 5分の1
Korean flag Korean: 5분의 1 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: penktoji (dalis) Latvian flag Latvian: piektā []
Malay flag Malay: satu per lima Dutch flag Dutch: vijfde Norwegian flag Norwegian: fem(te)del
Polish flag Polish: piąta (część) Persian flag Persian: یک پنجم Pashto flag Pashto: پنځم
Portuguese flag Portuguese: quinto Romanian flag Romanian: o cin­cime Russian flag Russian: пятая часть
Slovak flag Slovak: pätina Slovenian flag Slovenian: petina Serbian flag Serbian: petina
Swedish flag Swedish: femtedel Thai flag Thai: 1ใน 5 ส่วน Turkish flag Turkish: beşte biri; 1/5
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 五分之一 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: п'ята частина Urdu flag Urdu: پانچ برابر حصوں میں سے ای
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: một phần năm Chinese flag Chinese: 五分之一

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