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

  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

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  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.

Wikipedia

  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.

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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 Dictionary

  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. 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

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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. Nancy Pelosi:

    The five white guys I call them, you know, are they going to open a hamburger stand next or what ?

  2. J. R. Platt:

    It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

  3. Stephen Legomsky:

    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.

  4. Mayor Chris Hart:

    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.

  5. Rick Garlick:

    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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