Five

Definition: Five

Five

Adjective

1. Being one more than four.

Noun

1. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.

2. A team that plays basketball.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "five" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Five

Amusement

Ace, king, queen, knave, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, trey, deuce; joker; trump, wild card.

Five

Noun: five, cinque, quint, quincux; six, half-a-dozen, half dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; dicker; ten, decade; eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long dozen, baker's dozen; quintuplet; twenty, score; twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen; twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half a hundred; sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four score; ninety, fourscore and ten; sestiad.

Adjective: five, quinary, quintuple; fifth; senary, sextuple; sixth; seventh; septuple; octuple; eighth; ninefold, ninth; tenfold, decimal, denary, decuple, tenth; eleventh; duodenary, duodenal; twelfth; in one's 'teens, thirteenth.

Inexpedience

Phrase: " Jewels five words long "; " long may such goodness live! "; "the luxury of doing good ".

Mart

Shop, emporium, establishment; store; department store, general store, five and ten, variety store, co-op, finding store, grindery warehouse.

Quinquesection

Noun: division by five; quinquesection; decimation; fifth;

Refreshment

Breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; take a break, take a breather, take five, draw breath, take a deep breath, take breath, gather breath, take a long breath, regain breath, recover breath; get better, raise one's head; recover one's strength, regain one's strength, renew one's strength; perk up, get one's second wind.

Crosswords: Five

Pidgin English (five).

Nineteen post-graduate degrees in mathematics, and your best explanation for going from a 63 to a 46 percent approval rating in five weeks is mood swings (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

For you, Brad, I've got five! (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

And I couldn't in good conscience vote for someone who doesn't believe in God. For someone who honestly believes that the other ninety five percent of us suffer from some form of mass delusion (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

Five potato (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders)

I'll be back in five or six days (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp)

One hun' twenty, five foot two (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW)

When the chimes ring five, six, and seven ("Rock Around the Clock"; performing artist: Bill Haley & the Comets)

Then he quit his nine to five, finally his time arrived (Deception; performing artist: Blackalicious)

There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry)

You're such a drag from nine 'til five (That's The Way Love Is; performing artist: Bobby Darin)

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. (references; author: Groucho Marx)

Out of my mind… Back in five minutes. (references; author: unknown)

Five second fuses only last three seconds. (references; author: unknown)

Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names (references; author: unknown)

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions. (references; author: unknown)

And Mother Makes Five (1974)

Five Loose Women (1974)

The Five (1974)

Devil Times Five (1974)

Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)

Take Five (performing artist: The Dave Brubeck Quartet)

Five To One (performing artist: The Doors)

Morning Train (Nine To Five) (performing artist: Sheena Easton)

SIX, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE  (performing artist: Wilson Pickett )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Five Arrows Australia Fund Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Five Star Products, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Group Five Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Dawes Commission and the Allotment of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1893-1914 (reference)

• You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Five Principles Your Therapist Never Told You (reference)

• Five Minutes to Orgasm Every Time You Make Love: Female Orgasm Made Simple (reference)

• The Five Stages of Quitting Farming (reference)

• The Five Key Habits of Smart Dads: A Powerful Strategy for Successful Fathering (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Five Civilized Tribes Museum Newsletter (reference)

• Five Points (reference)

• Five Stones: A Newsletter For Small Churches (reference)

• Five To Eleven (reference)

• Latin American Regional Reports - All Five C-w Latin America (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Nine to Five (reference)

• The Five Pennies (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Best of Five Years (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Exchange Server 5.5 Client Access License Pack with Five CALs (reference)

• R&R SQL Edition Version 9.0 five user (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Winnie The Pooh Five Year Baby Memory Book (reference)

• Henckels Five Star 3-Piece High Carbon Stainless Steel Knife Starter Set (reference)

• Henckels Five Star 9-Piece High Carbon Stainless Steel Knife Set with Block (reference)

• Henckels Five Star High-Carbon Stainless-Steel 7-Piece Knife Set with Block (reference)

• McGuire-Nicholas C14 Five Pocket Waist Apron (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Five illustrations showing the methods of surgical treatment that may be used: lumpectomy; modified radical mastectomy; partial mastectomy (also called segmental mastectomy), radical mastectomy (also called Halsted radical mastectomy), and total (simple) mastectomy. These illustrations appeared in "What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer." See artwork WYTK-05. Credit: Jeanne Kelly (Artist).

(1) color slide shows a group of four or five raw string beans. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Five story PHS Hospital located in Tacoma, Washington. Credit: CDC.

Entamoeba coli cyst, mature, five nuclei, chromatoid body visible. Parasite, ameba. Credit: CDC.

TRMM Satellite Provides Five Year of Rainfall Data. Credit: NASA.

This series of images, which spans more than five days beginning at 5:33 p.m. EDT on July 16, ... Credit: NASA.

This Hubble telescope snapshot of the planet Uranus reveals the planet's rings, at least five ... Credit: NASA.

Five global views of Venus by Magellan. Credit: NASA.

Five color views of Io. Credit: NASA.

Five Cow-nosed Rays - Rhinoptera bonasus - gliding toward the photographer with both wing tips up. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All those, moveover, in the land who of themselves and of their own accord are unwilling to swear to the twenty five to help them in constraining and molesting us, we shall by our command compel the same to swear to the effect foresaid. (reference)

The destruction of a year's product or two (for it seldom reaches four or five) is the utmost spoil that usually can be done: for as to money, and such riches and treasure taken away, these are none of nature's goods, they have but a fantastical imaginary value: nature has put no such upon them: they are of no more account by her standard, than the wampompeke of the Americans to an European prince, or the silver money of Europe would have been formerly to an American. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 2: No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. (reference)

The period of five years during which reciprocity cannot be demanded may be prolonged by the Council of the League of Nations. (reference)

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1890)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I had no intention, I thought I had no power of staying more than five minutes, when I first entered the house

His son looked at the five natives

He was at home in five minutes

His sister had a life estate of five hundred francs, which in the vicarage sufficed for her personal needs

Why did the five fellows out of the higher line run away for that

Pa gives five dollars to get a painted piece of board stuck up over Granma

I spent five days in conversing with many others of the ancient learned

I can remember when it was a foot or two lower, and also when it was at least five feet higher, than when I lived by it.

It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

About one in five women with PID becomes infertile. (references)

One woman in five develops a UTI during her lifetime. (references)

Others feel it is better to wait for four to five years. (references)

Business

Registration is valid for five years. (references)

Four to five companies dominate the retail food sector. (references)

Five large companies dominate the used automobile market. (references)

Children

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

A separate, small rehabilitation center treats about five persons daily. (references)

South Africa

The enrollment of black students had risen to 41 percent in 1999 at the nation's top five universities. (references)

Nicaragua

From December 1998 to May 1999, the Ministry of the Family sponsored an investigation into child prostitution in five municipalities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Paraguay

Five teachers were injured, one seriously. (references)

Norway

Two television channels and five radio channels are state-owned. (references)

Egypt

Five literary figures working for the Ministry resigned in protest. (references)

Economic History

Norway

It will reach five weeks by 2003 years. (references)

Gambia, The

Subdivisions: Capital and five divisions. (references)

India

The normal gestation period is five years. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

The gunman wounded five persons. (references)

Colombia

The five were released, after 3 years in detention. (references)

India

Five persons were killed and several persons were injured. (references)

Indigenous People

Norway

Police arrested five neo-Nazis for the killing, which is believed to have been racially motivated; their trial began in December and was ongoing as year's end. (references)

Malaysia

The trial of a group of five Iban tribesmen charged with the 1999 killing in Sarawak of four Chinese workers who worked for a company that was encroaching on their land ended in September. (references)

Minorities

Kenya

In mid-July five people reportedly were killed in fighting that started after Pokomo rivals stoned to death two Orma men. (references)

Political Economy

Barbados

The term of office is five years. (references)

Vietnam

Party Congresses are held every five years. (references)

OMAN

Import duties are set at about five percent. (references)

Political Rights

Andorra

The CDP and the SDP won five and six seats respectively. (references)

Togo

Some Government agencies have representatives in the five regions. (references)

Central African Republic

There is one Muslim in the Cabinet and at least five Muslims in the National Assembly. (references)

Trade

Dominican Rep

The license is valid for a period of five years. (references)

Spain

For U.S. products, the tariff rate averages five percent. (references)

Philippines

In 2004, the rate for both goods will drop to five percent. (references)

Travel

Oman

Devout Muslims pray five times each day. (references)

Australia

Frequent interstate flights connect the five major Australian cities. (references)

Taiwan

Fares of NT$20 - NT$60 are charged for a full-route ride on the five lines. (references)

Women

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Five communities participated, involving a total of 100 men. (references)

Bolivia

According to a 1997 study by the Ministry of Education, four out of five illiterate citizens are female. (references)

United Arab Emirates

The state-run Higher Colleges of Technology has five sets of separate campuses for men and women in five emirates. (references)

Worker Rights

Moldova

Five criminal cases were opened during the year. (references)

Thailand

No strikes were disapproved during the year, and five legal strikes were held. (references)

Brazil

Strikers reacted by throwing rocks and cans at police, injuring five policemen. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Five cities

The five books of Moses

Expressions using "five": 65 % chicken(sixty five percent) ♦ 75 % goose (seventy five percent) ♦ 85 % duck (eighty five percent) ♦ a five dollar bill ♦ a man in five ♦ around five o'clock ♦ at five o'clock ♦ bunch of five ♦ Chevy Chase Section Five ♦ child of five ♦ Classical Five Element Acupuncture ♦ every other five days ♦ five all ♦ five and ten ♦ Five Animal Frolics ♦ five by five ♦ five copeck coin ♦ Five Corners ♦ five day week ♦ five days ♦ five events ♦ Five Finger Kung Fu ♦ five fold ♦ Five Forks ♦ five hundred ♦ five hundred anniversary ♦ five iron ♦ Five Minute Massage ♦ Five nations ♦ five per mil ♦ Five Points ♦ Five Rites of rejuvenation ♦ five shillings a head ♦ five spice powder ♦ five thousand ♦ five times ♦ five years ♦ Five Years Defense Program ♦ Group of Five ♦ high five ♦ I read you five ♦ make up to five ♦ of five years ♦ one hundred five ♦ one out of five ♦ take five ♦ take five from ten ♦ Taoist five element nutrition ♦ the five ♦ the five senses ♦ The five wits ♦ The five W's ♦ with five fingers. Additional references.

Beginning with "five": five-abreast passenger seating, five-acre, five-act, five-aisled, five-all, five-and, five-and-a-half, five-and-a-half-day, five-and-a-half-year-old, five-and-four, five-and-half, five-and-thirty, five-and-twenty, five-arched, five-arm, five-aside, five-a-side, five-asides, five-a-sides, five-atom, five-baller, five-bar, five-barred, five-barrelled, five-bathroomed, five-bedroom, five-bedroomed, five-billion, five-bladed, five-block, five-bob, five-bone, five-book, five-button, five-by-eight, five-canvas, five-car, five-card, five-category, Five-cd, five-cent, five-centre, five-chamber, five-channel, five-choice, five-church, five-city, five-clawed, five-coach, five-colour, five-coloured, five-column, five-coordinated, five-copeck, five-count, five-country, five-course, five-customer, five-cylinder, five-day, five-day-old, five-day-week, five-diamond, five-dice, five-dimensional, five-direction, five-disc, five-dog, five-dollar, five-dollar bill, five-domed, five-door, five-doored, five-doors, five-double-one, five-drawer, five-eighth, five-eighths, five-eights, five-electron, five-element, five-fathom, five-feet, five-feet-seven, five-feet-three-inch, five-fifteen, five-fifty, five-fight, five-figure, five-finger, five-finger exercise, five-fingered, five-fingered maidenhair fern, five-five, five-five-five, five-five-one, five-floor, five-flowered gentian, five-fold, five-foot, five-footer, five-foot-five, five-foot-high, five-foot-one, five-foot-ten, five-foot-three, five-for-four, five-forty, five-forty-five, five-four, five-frame, five-franc, five-furlong, five-gallon, five-game, five-gatefold, five-goal, five-headed, five-hitter, five-hole, five-horse, five-hour, five-hundred, five-hundred-buck, five-hundred-drachma, five-hundred-guinea, five-hundredth, five-hundred-year, five-hundred-year-old, five-inch, five-iron, five-ish, five-items-only, five-jet, five-judge, five-kilometre, five-knuckled, five-kronor note, five-lane, five-language, five-layer, Five-leaf, Five-leafed, Five-leaved, five-legged, five-length, five-letter, five-level, five-lever, five-line, five-line stanza, five-litre, five-lorry, five-man, five-mark, five-marks, five-match, five-member, five-membered, five-men, five-metre, five-mile, five-mile-an-hour, five-mile-long, five-million-peso, five-millionth, Five-minute, five-minutes, five-module, five-month, five-month-old, five-months, five-movement, five-nation, five-nations, five-night, five-nil, five-note, Five-o, five-o'clock, five-o'clock-shadowed, five-octave, five-oh, five-one, five-one-five, five-one-one, five-on-three, five-or-ten, five-ounce, five-pack, five-page, five-part, five-party, five-peg, five-peppered, five-person, five-pfennig piece, five-phase, five-phased, five-piece, five-pin, five-plus-one, five-plus-three, five-point, five-point bishop's cap, five-pointed, five-pointer, five-position, five-pound, five-pounders, Five-power, five-programme, five-pronged, five-putted, five-quarter, five-race, five-ranked, five-rayed, five-red-star, five-rise, five-room, five-rouble, five-round, five-rows, five-sailed, five-seat, five-seater, five-seaters, five-second, five-section, five-session, five-set, five-setter, Five-seventieth, five-shilling, five-ship, five-shot, five-sided, five-six, five-sixteenths, five-sixths, five-sou, five-speed, five-speeder, five-speeds, five-spice, five-spot, Five-square, five-stage, five-star, five-star-standard, five-state, five-step, five-stop, five-storey, five-storeyed, five-story, five-strand, five-stride, five-string, five-stringed, five-strong, five-stud, five-subject, five-surnamed, five-syllable, five-tape, five-ten, five-test, five-thirteen, five-thirty, five-thousand, five-thousand-pound, five-thousandth, five-thousand-ton, five-tier, five-tiered, five-time, five-timer, five-times, five-times-a-day, five-times-wed, five-to, five-toed, five-to-five, five-to-four, five-ton, five-tone, five-to-one, five-track, five-tread, five-trophy, five-try, Five-twenties, five-twenty, five-two-nine-seven, five-under, five-under-par, five-unit, five-unit code, five-user, five-valve, five-vehicle, five-volume, five-watt, five-way, five-week, five-weekly, five-week-old, five-wents, five-wicket, five-wins, five-wood, five-yard, five-year, five-year period, five-year plan, five-yearly, five-year-old, five-year-olds, five-year-plan, five-years, five-years-old, five-years-olds.

Ending with "five": father-of-five, four-five, half-five, m-five, mother-of-five, nine-to-five, one-one-five, par-five, scrum-five, six-five, ten-forty-five, thirty-five, top-five, twelve-forty-five, twenty-five, under-five.

Containing "five": fifty-five-year-old, forty-five-minute, forty-five-year-old, o-five-hundred, one-five-one, thirty-five-foot, thirty-five-year-old, twenty-five-foot, twenty-five-year, twenty-five-year-old.

Afrikaans

vyf. (various references)

Albanian

pesë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ورقة الخمسة دولارات, ‏خمسة (pentad), ‏خمس (fifth, quintuple), ‏الخماسي, ‏الخامس من. (various references)

Asturian

cinco. (various references)

Aymara

phesqa. (various references)

Basque

bost. (various references)

Bavarian

fünfe. (various references)

Bemba

fisano. (various references)

Blackfoot

niisit. (various references)

Breton

pemp, bemp. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ръка (arm, claw, flapper, flipper, forearm, hand, mitt, paw), банкнота от пет лири (fiver), банкнота от пет долара (fiver), петица (quint), пет. (various references)

Catalan

cinc. (various references)

Cebuano

lima. (various references)

Chamorro

sinko. (various references)

Chinese 

五 (5). (various references)

Cornish

pymp. (various references)

Croatian

pet. (various references)

Czech

pìt. (various references)

Danish

fem. (various references)

Dutch

vijf. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

pichca. (various references)

Esperanto

kvin. (various references)

Estonian

viis. (various references)

Faeroese

fimm. (various references)

Farsi 

پنجگانه (Quintet, Quintuple, Quintuplet), عددپنج . (various references)

Finnish

viisi. (various references)

Flemish

vijf. (various references)

French

cinq. (various references)

French Canadian

cinq. (various references)

Frisian

fiif. (various references)

Galician

cinco. (various references)

German

fünf. (various references)

Greek 

πέντε. (various references)

Guarani

cinco. (various references)

Haitian Creole

senk. (various references)

Hawaiian

pesë. (various references)

Hebrew 

חמישה, חמש. (various references)

Hungarian

öt (five days running, to be five shillings in pocket, to be five shillings out of pocket). (various references)

Icelandic

fimm. (various references)

Indonesian

pancawarsa (five-year period), pancaindra (faculty, the five senses), kelontong (five-and-dime goods, peddler, sundries). (various references)

Inuktitut

tallimat. (various references)

Irish

cúig. (various references)

Italian

cinque. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

五つ , 五 , 伍つ , 伍 (associate with, file, five-man squad, line, rank with). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いつつ, ご (associate with, be clear, be cold, be serene, be skillful, doingfor, file, five-man squad, giving, Go, honourable, language, line, mis-, rank with, word). (various references)

Kongo

tanu. (various references)

Korean 

5. (various references)

Lombard

cinch. (various references)

Luganda

ttaano. (various references)

Luxembourgish

fënnef. (various references)

Macedonian

pet. (various references)

Malagasy

dimy. (various references)

Malay

lima. (various references)

Manx

queig. (various references)

Maori

rima. (various references)

Maya

ho'oh. (various references)

Mohawk

wisk. (various references)

Norwegian

fem. (various references)

Occitan

cinc. (various references)

Papago

hetasp. (various references)

Papiamen

sinku, cincu. (various references)

Pidgin English

five, 5. (various references)

Pig Latin

ivefay.(various references)

Polish

pięć. (various references)

Portuguese

cinco. (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

cinco. (various references)

Provencal

cinc. (various references)

Quechua

phisqa, phishqa. (various references)

Romanian

cinci (pentad). (various references)

Romansch

tschintg. (various references)

Romany

panch. (various references)

Ruanda

gatanu. (various references)

Russian 

пять. (various references)

Samoan

lima (arm). (various references)

Scottish

cóig (num. five; also cùig). (various references)

Sepedi

hlano. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

petoro, petorica, petica, pet. (various references)

Sicilian

cincu. (various references)

Slovene

petih, pet. (various references)

Somali

shan. (various references)

Sotho

mehlano, mahlano, hlano, bohlano. (various references)

Spanish

cinco. (various references)

Sranan

feyfi. (various references)

Swahili

tano. (various references)

Swazi

-sihlánu. (various references)

Swedish

fem (finite element analysis, finite element modelling). (various references)

Tagalog

sinko, limá, lima. (various references)

Tahitian

pae (side). (various references)

Thai

เกี่ยวกับจำนวนห้า, ห้า. (various references)

Tswana

tlhano, metlhano, matlhano, botlhano. (various references)

Turkish

beş (cinque, penta-, quin-, quint-). (various references)

Turkmen 

bдю. (various references)

Ukrainian

п'ять. (various references)

Vietnamese 

năm. (various references)

Welsh

pump. (various references)

Wolof

juróomi, juróom. (various references)

Xhosa

nhlanu, nanhlanu, emihlanu, amahlanu. (various references)

Zulu

-hlanu. (various references)

ia. (various references)

pente. (various references)

quinque. (various references)

panca. (various references)

pañca. (various references)

fif. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "five": fivefold, fivepins, fiver, fivers, fives. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Five" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aive, bive, bivi, bivvi, eive, faif, faive, farve, fava, fave, favi, favo, favre, favs, Fbie, feave, feev, feeve, feva, feve, fevum, ffive, fibe, fibet, fice, Fidem, fieb, Fiee, fieh, fiek, Fieve, fiew, fif, fige, Figel, fike, fime, firve, fise, fiuve, fiv, fivbe, fived, fivel, fivet, fivey, fivez, Fivf, fivo, fivre, fivver, fivy, fixe, fize, foive, fova, fove, fovie, fovy, fuev, fuf, fulva, fuve, fyce, fyve, ifie, ivee, ivu, nfyfc, Rfvi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fie, vie.

-2 letters: ef, if.

+1 letter: fiver, fives.

+2 letters: fervid, fivers, verify.

+3 letters: festive, fictive, flavine, flivver, forgive, furtive, verbify, versify.

+4 letters: cavefish, effluvia, effusive, favorite, fervidly, festival, fevering, feverish, fivefold, fivepins, fixative, flavines, flivvers, forgiven, forgiver, forgives, frivoled, frivoler, fugitive, infusive, overfill, overfish, overrife, reverify, revivify, verified, verifier, verifies, vilified, vilifier, vilifies, vinifera, vinified, vinifies, vivified, vivifier, vivifies, voiceful.