Definitions for fives
fives

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fivesnoun

   a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fivesnoun

   a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall

2. fivesnoun

   A pair of fives.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fivesnoun

   1. A kind of play with a bowl.2. A disease of horses.

   His horse sped with spavins rayed with the yellows, past cure of the fives, and stark spoiled with the staggers. William Shakespeare.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fives

   Fives (historically known as hand-tennis) is an English handball sport derived from jeu de paume, similar to the games of handball, Basque pelota, and squash. The game is played in both singles and doubles teams, in an either three- or four-sided court.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fives

   a kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game

2. Fivesnoun

   a disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives

3. Etymology: [See Vives.]

FreebaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fives

   Fives is an English sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racquet sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using a gloved or bare hand as though it were a racquet.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fives

   fīvz, n. (Shak.) vives, a disease of horses.

2. Fives

   fīvz, n.pl. a game of handball played in a roomy court against a wall, chiefly at the great public schools of England.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fives

   An old game at ball, usually played by five on each side. The “court” consists of a roomy space with a high wall at one end.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FIVES

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fives is ranked #87335 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Fives surname appeared 213 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fives.
   
   95.3% or 203 total occurrences were White.

Matched Categories

1. • Court Game

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fives' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4689

How to pronounce fives?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say fives in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fives in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fives in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of fives in a Sentence

1. Bryson DeChambeau:

   Sometimes you're just not going to get your way, you know ? unfortunately the par-fives weren't nice to me this week, except on 18 today. That's just something that I've got to work on.

2. Denis Shapovalov:

   As a player, it's kind of scary coming to this city, seeing how the players are collapsing, seeing that fit players are needing inhalers to play tennis, and it's two out of three sets( in qualifying), it's not even three-out-of-fives yet.

3. Jon Rahm:

   Taking superb advantage of the par-fives is where everything got together, a lot of momentum going on, especially starting the day with an eagle.

4. Englishman Fleetwood:

   If you can score on the par-fives, you can shoot a good score and that's basically where I made all my numbers up today, it was just nice to have a day like that and just constantly feel at ease really with hitting good golf shots.

5. Michael Hoey:

   We had 10 or 11 holes with not much wind, which was an advantage teeing off early, i hit the ball well, and it suits me that there's a bit of length off the tee ; you can carry a few corners and reach the par fives in two. It has been a long time since I had a bogey-free card.

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