What does fifth mean?

Definitions for fifth
fɪfθ or, often, fɪθfifth

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fifthnoun

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

  2. fifthnoun

    position five in a countable series of things

    "he was fifth out of several hundred runners"

  3. one-fifth, fifth, fifth part, twenty percentnoun

    one part in five equal parts

  4. fifthadjective

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

  5. fifth, 5thadjective

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

Wiktionary

  1. fifthnoun

    The person or thing in the fifth position.

  2. fifthnoun

    One of five equal parts of a whole.

  3. fifthnoun

    The fifth gear of an engine.

  4. fifthnoun

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

  5. fifthnoun

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

  6. fifthnoun

    The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

  7. fifthadjective

    The ordinal form of the number five.

  8. Fifthnoun

    The Fifth Amendment.

  9. Fifthnoun

    The right not to give self-incriminating testimony.

  10. Fifthnoun

    Fifth Avenue.

  11. Fifthnoun

    Fifth Street.

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. FIFTHadjective

    Etymology: fifta, Saxon.

    With smiling aspect you serenely move,
    In your fifth orb, and rule the realm of love. Dryden.

    Just as I wish’d, the lots were cast on four,
    Myself the fifth. Alexander Pope, Odyssey, b. ix.

    The publick shall have lost four fifths of its annual income for ever. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. Fifth

    Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five.

ChatGPT

  1. fifth

    A "fifth" generally refers to one out of five equal parts of a whole. It constitutes 20% of the total. In other terms, it may also refer to the position that comes after the fourth and before the sixth in a series or count. Also, in music, it refers to an interval spanning five consecutive notes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fifthadjective

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

  2. Fifthadjective

    consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing

  3. Fifthnoun

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

  4. Fifthnoun

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

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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  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.]

Rap Dictionary

  1. fifthnoun

    See 1/5. I could Drink a whole Hennesy fifth - Xzibit (Restless)

  2. fifthnoun

    Fifth street. On the corner, fifth and eighth is where he caught the mad papes -- Buddha Monk featuring Drunken Dragon (Sometime Faces)

  3. fifthnoun

    .45 cal. handgun.

  4. fifthnoun

    5th avenue manhattan

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

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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. Tom Frieden:

    We could have had one-fifth the deaths we've have had, and part of this is a failure to communicate, we will pass 200,000 deaths in the beginning of October, by all estimates, and this is a number that is just almost inconceivable.

  2. Robert F. Kennedy:

    One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

  3. Tiger Woods:

    Very special to win my 15th major and get my fifth jacket, those are special moments to be able to have an opportunity like that. And the rest of the tournaments I didnt really play as well as I wanted. But at the end of the day, Im the one with the green jacket.

  4. Brenda Sheridan:

    It’s not in our curriculum, because that would be inappropriate. It is a graduate level theory, and it would be inappropriate if a fifth grader was doing that and learning that in school, and it’s been manipulated to replace what is really equity initiatives and teaching students about their biases and teachers about their biases. And that’s what leads to discipline disproportionality and students being treated differently just based on their skin color or perhaps poverty.

  5. Tony Green:

    State law says that if the margin is no more than one-fifth of 1 percent of the total votes cast in that election...then there shall be an automatic hand recount.

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