What does five mean?

Definitions for five
faɪvfive

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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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    Rank popularity for the word 'five' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #293

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    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. Matthew Kacsmaryk:

    But through that progression or regression, I think you can see five areas where there will be a clash of absolutes between the traditional Judeo-Christian understanding of marriage and the revisionist, redefined vision of marriage that you saw in last term’s Supreme Court opinions.

  2. Martin Kaymer:

    Eddie hit his shots to the green, then came over to tell us he had run out of balls, then he walked off. I thought he lost four or five. We are about 80 percentsure it was five, 20 percentfour. He was quick, so it was hard to keep track. He did not ask if he could borrow one from me or George. It did not look like he wanted to play. He did not putt with his putter on the third hole; he putted with a wedge. So there was a lot happening.

  3. Taylor Porter:

    Taylor Porter and Christopher Wilson went from that to an elopement with just five people attending.

  4. Mambo Kaway:

    There were five people aboard the vehicle, including the Italian ambassador, the driver died after being shot with several bullets, and others were wounded.

  5. David Lazzeri:

    This may explain why he left numerous paintings incomplete, including the Mona Lisa, during the last five years of his career as a painter while he continued teaching and drawing.

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