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five

//ˈfaɪ̯v//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Numeral

A word that represents a number or quantity.

Note for five

Mnemonics, your own examples, reminders…

Forms

Plural
fives

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.The digit/figure 5.

    • He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.

  2. 2.A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency.

    • Can anyone here change a five?

  3. 3.Anything measuring five units, as length.

    • All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.

  4. 4.A person who is five years old.

    • The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.

Numeral

A word that represents a number or quantity.

  1. 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.

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

Frequency

Overall

Very common· #365

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Common
General reading & writing
Very common
Academic
Uncommon
Literature
Uncommon

Etymology

PIE word

*pénkʷe

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe

Proto-Germanic *fimf

Proto-West Germanic *fimf

Old English fīf

Middle English fyf

English five

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