5s
5s is the alternative form of fives.
5s is the plural of 5.
Meaning of fives
Noun (1)
fives (uncountable)
- A ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
- Liza on her first visit to the school had greatly admired everything about it from the fives courts and the chapel to the plaster casts in the corridors and the photographs of cathedrals in the classrooms.1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 4.4, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 94
Noun (2)
fives pl (plural only)
- A pair of fives.
- The cells located on the fourth floor.
- Shares at a rate of five percent.
- Look what the funds were on the 1st of March—what the French fives were when I bought for the count. And what they're at now.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
Phrase capitalized: 5S
5S
- Sort, straighten, shine, standardize, sustain: a workplace discipline used to ensure reliable work practices and a clean working environment, now used in the West but originally from Japan.
Phrases with 5s
Questions about 5s
- What does 5s mean?
- 5s means sort, straighten, shine, standardize, sustain: a workplace discipline used to ensure reliable work practices and a clean working environment, now used in the West but originally from Japan.
- What is 5s the alternative form of?
- 5s is the alternative form of fives.
- What part of speech is 5s?
- 5s is a phrase.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: 5s (page history and authors); 5S (page history and authors); fives (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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