What does five mean?
Definitions for five
faɪvfive
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word five.
Princeton's WordNet
five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebenoun
the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
basketball team, fivenoun
a team that plays basketball
five-spot, fiveadjective
a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips
five, 5, vadjective
being one more than four
Wiktionary
fivenoun
The digit/figure 5.
He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
fivenoun
A five-dollar bill.
Can anyone here change a five?
fivenoun
Anything measuring five units, as length.
All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
fivenoun
A person who is five years old.
The fives and sixes will have snack first, then the older kids.
fivenoun
five o'clock
See you at five.
fivenoun
A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
Take five, soldier.
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 Dictionary
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.
Wikipedia
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.
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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.
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 Dictionary
Fiveadjective
four and one added; one more than four
Fivenoun
the number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects
Fivenoun
a symbol representing this number, as 5, or V
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 Dictionary
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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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'five' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #293
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'five' in Written Corpus Frequency: #116
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of five in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of five in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of five in a Sentence
The five white guys I call them, you know, are they going to open a hamburger stand next or what ?
It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
I think it does show that for the five Republican appointees on the court, deference to the executive branch policy positions will still be the rule of the day as long as they like the outcome. Those same justices were not deferential to President Obama with respect to( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and( Deferred Action for Parents of Americans), but they are showing extreme deference to this President on this proclamation even on the face of explicitly discriminatory public statements, the court has shown it is willing to be very selective when it comes to showing deference to the President.
One thing that we haven’t done a lot of here that Vegas have become masters at is to recapture the water that flows through our buildings and run it through a treatment plant and then recycle it, so the few drops of rain that we get, if we can use them four or five times, that’s a whole different thing than the drop of rain comes, you use it and off it goes down the river and it’s gone.
While passengers often choose airlines based on price, convenient scheduling, or loyalty program membership, about one-in-five choose airlines based on specific things they like about the brand such as customer service, in-flight entertainment, or more comfortable seating.
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- خمسةArabic
- PětCzech
- femDanish
- fünfGerman
- πέντεGreek
- kvinEsperanto
- cincoSpanish
- پنجPersian
- viisiFinnish
- cinqFrench
- cúigIrish
- पंजHindi
- otHungarian
- limaIndonesian
- cinqueItalian
- חמשHebrew
- 5Japanese
- ಐದುKannada
- 다섯Korean
- quinqueLatin
- vijfDutch
- femNorwegian
- pięćPolish
- cincoPortuguese
- cinciRomanian
- 5Russian
- femSwedish
- ఐదుTelugu
- ห้าThai
- beşTurkish
- п’ятьUkrainian
- پانچUrdu
- số nămVietnamese
- 五Chinese
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