adj
Meaning 1
The ordinal form of the number five.
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adj
The ordinal form of the number five.
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name
The Fifth Amendment.
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Usage: US, informal
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The right not to give self-incriminating testimony.
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name
Fifth Avenue.
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name
Fifth Street.
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noun
The person or thing in the fifth position.
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noun
The person or thing in the fifth position.
The fifth gear of a transmission.
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noun
One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
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noun
A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
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noun
The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
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noun
The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
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verb
To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
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verb
To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
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verb
To divide by five.
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adjective satellite
coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position
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noun
the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
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Broader terms: interval, musical interval
noun
a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
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Broader terms: United States liquid unit
noun
one part in five equal parts
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Synonyms: one-fifth, fifth part, twenty percent
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Broader terms: common fraction, simple fraction
noun
position five in a countable series of things
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Broader terms: rank
History
PIE word *pénkwe From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).
(Fifth Amendment): From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in US legal proceedings.
Across languages
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