What does five mean?
Definitions for five
faɪvfive
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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
Kids are googling' how to suicide.' You get the alerts -- you get four or five a day.
No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.
Twenty-five years ago President Bush spoke at the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, as the sitting president, and we have a copy of the speech in our auditorium here on a continuous loop.
Two Taliban fighters and five civilians were killed.
It's the right time for Colony Capital to do more in China, over the next three-to-five years Asia, and China in particular, will be the fastest growing part of our business.
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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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