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fyve

fyve is the obsolete spelling of five.

Meaning of five

Numeral

five

  1. 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
  2. Describing a group or set with five elements.

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Questions about fyve

What is fyve the obsolete spelling of?
Fyve is the obsolete spelling of five.

Words near fyve in the dictionary

  1. FYSA
  2. Fyshwick
  3. fytb
  4. fytte
  5. fyttes
  6. fyve
  7. Fyvie
  8. FZD
  9. FZS
  10. FZSs
  11. fáinne

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