five


Definition: Meaning of, five in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / fʌɪv /

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  1. the number 5
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  2. [countable] a piece of paper money that is worth five dollars or five pounds [↪  fiver]
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  3. give somebody (a) five informal to hit the inside of someone's hand with your hand to show that you are very pleased about something
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  4. take five spoken used to tell people to stop working for a few minutes
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  5. fives [uncountable] a British ball game in which the ball is hit with the hand against any of three walls [↪  handball]
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five used in phrases

  • Famous Five, the
    1. the main characters in a series of British books for children by Enid BLYTON, mostly written in the 1940s and 1950s. They are a group of two boys, two girls, and a dog called Timmy. They come from MIDDLE-CLASS families and go to private schools, but they have a lot of exciting adventures together during the school holidays.
  • Feeding of the Five Thousand, the
    1. a story from the BIBLE in which Jesus performs a MIRACLE by providing food for 5000 people with only five LOAVES of bread and two fish. People sometimes use this phrase humorously to talk about a situation in which they have to provide a meal for a lot of people.
  • Five Nations (noun)
    1. the Six Nations the Five Nations a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca ; after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora
  • Forty-five, the
    1. another name for the JACOBITE RISING of 1745, when the Scottish prince, Bonnie Prince Charlie, led an attempt to bring back the Stuart family of Britain. It failed when his army was defeated at the Battle of CULLODEN
  • eighty-five (adjective)
    1. being five more than eighty
  • fifty-five (adjective)
    1. being five more than fifty
  • five dollar bill (noun)
    1. a United States bill worth 5 dollars
  • five hundred (adjective)
    1. denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
    five hundred (noun)
    1. the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five
    2. a card game similar to écarté; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
  • five iron (noun)
    1. middle-distance iron
  • five o'clock shadow (noun)
    1. the dark colour on a man's chin where the hair has grown during the day
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