Definitions for fifth
fɪfθ or, often, fɪθfifth

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fifth(noun)

   a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon

2. fifth(noun)

   position five in a countable series of things

   "he was fifth out of several hundred runners"

3. one-fifth, fifth, fifth part, twenty percent(noun)

   one part in five equal parts

4. fifth(adj)

   the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it

5. fifth, 5th(adj)

   coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fifth(Noun)

   The person or thing in the fifth position.

   Etymology: From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in United States legal proceedings.

2. fifth(Noun)

   One of five equal parts of a whole.

   Etymology: From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in United States legal proceedings.

3. fifth(Noun)

   The fifth gear of an engine.

   Etymology: From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in United States legal proceedings.

4. fifth(Noun)

   A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters.

   Etymology: From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in United States legal proceedings.

5. fifth(Noun)

   The musical interval between one note and another five tones higher.

   Etymology: From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in United States legal proceedings.

6. fifth(Noun)

   The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

   Etymology: From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in United States legal proceedings.

7. fifth(Adjective)

   The ordinal form of the number five.

   Etymology: From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in United States legal proceedings.

8. Fifth(ProperNoun)

   The Fifth Amendment.

   Etymology: From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in United States legal proceedings.

9. Fifth(ProperNoun)

   The right not to give self-incriminating testimony.

   Etymology: From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in United States legal proceedings.

10. Fifth(ProperNoun)

    Fifth Avenue.

    Etymology: From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in United States legal proceedings.

11. Fifth(ProperNoun)

    Fifth Street.

    Etymology: From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in United States legal proceedings.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Fifth(adj)

   next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five

   Etymology: [OE. fifte, fifthe, AS. ffta. See Five.]

2. Fifth(adj)

   consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing

   Etymology: [OE. fifte, fifthe, AS. ffta. See Five.]

3. Fifth(noun)

   the quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part

   Etymology: [OE. fifte, fifthe, AS. ffta. See Five.]

4. Fifth(noun)

   the interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key

   Etymology: [OE. fifte, fifthe, AS. ffta. See Five.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Fifth

   fifth, adj. next after the fourth.—n. one of five equal parts: (mus.) a tone five diatonic degrees above or below any given tone.—adv. Fifth′ly, in the fifth place.—ns. Fifth′-mon′archism; Fifth′-mon′archist.—Fifth-monarchy men, an extreme sect of the time of the Puritan revolution, who looked for the establishment of a new reign of Christ on earth, in succession to Daniel's four great monarchies of Antichrist. [A.S. fífta.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fifth' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3061

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fifth' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1790

How to pronounce fifth?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fifth in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fifth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of fifth in a Sentence

1. Alan Gottlieb:

   Defense Distributed appears caught in what appears to be a bureaucratic game of merry-go-round, the right to keep and bear arms includes the ability to acquire or create arms. The government is engaging in behavior that denies this company’s due process under the Fifth Amendment. We’re compelled to file this action because the bureaucracy is evidently playing games and it’s time for these agencies to behave.

2. Martin Landray:

   That's a highly statistically significant result, this is a completely compelling result. If one looks at the patients who did not require ventilators but were on oxygen, there was also a significant risk reduction of about one-fifth.

3. Ryan Cloutier:

   Ultimately, we found that Jupiter is capable of ejecting the fifth giant planet while retaining a moon with the orbit of Callisto, on the other hand, it would have been very difficult for Saturn to do so because Iapetus would have been excessively unsettled, resulting in an orbit that is difficult to reconcile with its current trajectory.

4. Susan Zaunbrecher:

   Fifth Third's compensation and employee incentive structure does not reward retail employees for opening unauthorized accounts, nor does it give them sales quotas or product-specific targets.

5. Nigel Farage:

   We do have, I'm sad to say, a fifth column that is living within our own countries that is utterly opposed to our values, we're going to have to be a lot braver... in standing up for our Judaeo-Christian culture.

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