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fives

/faɪvz/

fives is the plural of five.

Noun (2)

fives pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) A pair of fives.
  2. (UK, plural, plural-only, slang) The cells located on the fourth floor.
  3. (archaic, plural, plural-only) 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

Meaning of five

Noun

five (plural fives)

  1. The digit/figure 5.
    • He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
  2. A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency.
    • Can anyone here change a five?
    Synonyms:
    fiver
  3. Anything measuring five units, as length.
    • All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
  4. A person who is five years old.
    • The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
  5. Five o'clock.
    • See you at five.
  6. A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
    • Take five, soldier.

See all 9 meanings of five

Noun (1)

fives (uncountable)

  1. (UK) 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

Proper noun capitalized: Fives

Fives

  1. A suburb of Lille, Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.

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Questions about fives

What does fives mean?
Fives means a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
What is fives the plural of?
Fives is the plural of five.
What part of speech is fives?
Fives can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fives?
Fives is pronounced /faɪvz/.

Words near fives in the dictionary

  1. fiveplexes
  2. fivequel
  3. fivequels
  4. fiver
  5. fivers
  6. fives
  7. fivescore
  8. fivesies
  9. fivesome
  10. fivesomes
  11. fivespot

Source and license

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