five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, four plus one.
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a symbol for this number, as 5 or V.
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a set of this many persons or things.
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a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with five pips.
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Informal. a five-dollar bill.
Can you give me two fives for a ten?
adjective
idioms
noun
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the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
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a numeral, 5, V, etc, representing this number
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the amount or quantity that is one greater than four
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something representing, represented by, or consisting of five units, such as a playing card with five symbols on it
determiner
Etymology
Origin of five
before 1000; 1925–30 five for def. 7; Middle English; Old English fīf; cognate with Dutch vijf, German fünf, Old Norse fimm, Gothic fimf, Latin quīnque, Greek pénte, Sanskrit pancha
Example Sentences
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When Clarity – the UK's oldest social enterprise – collapsed five years ago, more than a hundred workers lost their jobs and salaries.
From BBC
It barred WhatsApp from sharing user data with Meta entities for five years and directed the company to clearly specify the purposes of data sharing in its privacy policy.
From BBC
By week five, he says, he was "virtually pain-free" and able to do things he had not been able to do for "quite some time".
From BBC
Inflation has run above the central bank’s 2% target for nearly five years—and tariff-related costs are beginning to work their way to the consumer, increasing prices.
From Barron's
These stocks make up more than half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio, and Abel put Berkshire’s stakes in five Japanese trading companies worth $35 billion in the same bucket.
From Barron's
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