five
/ˈfaɪ̯v/
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General South African/ˈfaːv/
five numeral: a numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
Numeral
five
- A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
- The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 197
- The Texas Rangers investigation is one of at least five announced investigations targeting EPIC or EPIC City. Those include investigations led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas State Board of Securities and the Texas Funeral Service Commission.2025 March 31, Adrian Ashford, “Gov. Abbott directs Texas Rangers to investigate EPIC for ‘potential criminal activities’”, in The Dallas Morning News
- Describing a group or set with five elements.
Noun
five (plural fives)
- The digit/figure 5.
- He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
- A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency.
- Can anyone here change a five?
- Synonyms:
- fiver
- Anything measuring five units, as length.
- All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
- A person who is five years old.
- The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
- Five o'clock.
- See you at five.
- A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
- Take five, soldier.
- A basketball team, club or lineup.
Proper noun capitalized: Five
Five
- Abbreviation of MI5.
- Synonyms:
- 5, MI5, Security Service
five meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
five in Hindi
- cardinal number
- पाँच pā̃c, पंच pañc, पंज pañj, पंजा pañjā
- describing set or group with five components
- पंजा pañjā
- digit
- पंज pañj, पंच pañc, पंजा pañjā
- anything measuring five units
- पंजा pañjā
five in Tamil
- cardinal number
- ஐந்து aintu, அஞ்சு añcu
five in Marathi
- cardinal number
- पाच pāc
five in Urdu
- cardinal number
- پانچ pāñc
More languagesFewer languages
- five in Bengali
- পাঁচ pãc
- five in Telugu
- ఐదు aidu, ఏను ēnu
- five in Malayalam
- അഞ്ചു añcu, അഞ്ച് añcŭ
- five in Kannada
- ಐದು aidu
- five in Punjabi
- ਪੰਜ pañj
- five in Gujarati
- પાંચ pā̃c
- five in Odia
- ପାଞ୍ଚ pāñca
- five in Sanskrit
- पञ्च páñca
- five in Sinhala
- පහ paha
- five in Assamese
- পাঁচ pãs
- five in Nepali
- पाँच pā̃c
- five in Pashto
- پنځه pinjë
- five in Tagalog
- lima
- five in Arabic
- خَمْسَة ḵamsa, خمسة ḵamsa
- five in Malay
- lima, panca
- five in Indonesian
- lima
- five in Persian
- پنج panj
- five in Thai
- ห้า hâa
- five in Vietnamese
- năm
- five in Myanmar
- ငါး nga:
- Sindhi
- پَنجَ panja
- Dhivehi
- ފަސް fas
- Dzongkha
- ལྔ lnga
Examples of five in a sentence
- The blue team are on six points and the red team on five.
- All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
- I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
Synonyms of five
Forms of five
| Numeral | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | 5 |
| alternative form | V |
| Noun | |
| plural | fives |
Origin of five
PIE word *pénkʷe Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Germanic *fimf Proto-West Germanic *fimf Old English fīf Middle English fyf English five From Middle English fyf, fyve, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii. The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
Words formed from five
- after-five
- alert five
- and I claim my five pounds
- back five
- bat five hundred
- big five
- category five
- cheater five
- count to five
- eighty-five
- fifteen
- fifty-five
- first five-eighth
- five-a-day
- five aggregates
- five-alarm
- five and dime
- five-and-dime
- five and nine
- five and ten
- five-and-ten
- five-and-twenty
- five-and-under
- Five Ashes
- five-a-side
- five-bar gate
- five-barred gate
- five-bar swordtail
- fivebrane
- five-by-five
- five by five
- five-card stud
- five card stud
- five-day fever
- five-day week
- five-dimensional
- five-dollar word
- five-door
- five eighth
- five-eighth
- five eighths
- five-eighths
- five figures
- five-finger
- five finger
- five finger discount
- five-finger discount
- five finger exercise
- five-finger exercise
- five fingers
- five-fold
- five-foot way
- five-for
- fivegram
- fivehead
- five-hole
- Five Houses
- five hundred
- five hundred rum
- five-hundredth
Phrases with five
- five Ks
- hi five
- five W's
- low five
- Five Alls
- Five Dock
- Five Eyes
- Five Ways
- flat five
- hang five
- high five
- hung five
107 more phrasesFewer phrases
- take five
- took five
- fifty five
- Five Forks
- five lemma
- forty five
- gimme five
- grade five
- hangs five
- Power Five
- sixty five
- spoil five
- taken five
- takes five
- tight five
- eighty five
- Five Phases
- Five Points
- five senses
- five sixths
- five stones
- ninety five
- number five
- take a five
- taking five
- thirty five
- took a five
- twenty five
- Five Islands
- Five Nations
- five o'clock
- five pillars
- Five Poisons
- Five Sisters
- gimme a five
- hanging five
- nine to five
- rule of five
- seventy five
- slap of five
- taken a five
- takes a five
- five and tens
- Five Boroughs
- Five Churches
- five hundreds
- Five Precepts
- five thousand
- Group of Five
- shot the five
- starting five
- taking a five
- counts to five
- five and dimes
- five of a kind
- Five Percenter
- Frightful Five
- shoot the five
- counted to five
- Five Percenters
- five piece door
- nine while five
- shoots the five
- counting to five
- five tool player
- soup number five
- bats five hundred
- five tool players
- gave someone five
- give someone five
- shooting the five
- slap someone five
- given someone five
- gives someone five
- batted five hundred
- Five Books of Moses
- Five Mile High Club
- five mineral powder
- five o'clock shadow
- giving someone five
- batting five hundred
- five o'clock shadows
- five finger discounts
- five finger exercises
- five will get you ten
- Pfizer's rule of five
- Lipinski's rule of five
- Mayfield and Five Ashes
- two plus two equals five
- Sunday of the Five Loaves
- it's five o'clock somewhere
- Four Books and Five Classics
- knew how many beans make five
- know how many beans make five
- known how many beans make five
- knows how many beans make five
- Five Power Defence Arrangements
- knowing how many beans make five
- Rosie Palmer and her five sisters
- put two and two together and made five
- put two and two together and make five
- puts two and two together and makes five
- putting two and two together and making five
- put two and two together and came up with five
- put two and two together and come up with five
- puts two and two together and comes up with five
- putting two and two together and coming up with five
Words that rhyme with five
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Questions about five
- What does five mean?
- Five means a numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
- What is five in Hindi?
- Five in Hindi is पाँच (pā̃c), पंच (pañc), पंज (pañj). See Five meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is five?
- Five can be a numeral, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce five?
- Five is pronounced /ˈfaɪ̯v/.
Words near five in the dictionary
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