Definition of FIVE

five

Plural: fives

Noun

  • The cardinal number after four and before six.
  • the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
  • a team that plays basketball
  • a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips
  • The digit/figure 5.
  • A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.
  • Anything measuring five units, as length.
  • A person who is five years old.
  • Five o'clock.
  • A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
  • A basketball team, club or lineup.

Adjective Satellite

  • being one more than four

Num

  • A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
  • Describing a group or set with five elements.

Examples

  • All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
  • Can anyone here change a five?
  • He aimed for a FIVE-letter word to use up most of his rack.
  • He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
  • See you at five.
  • Take five, soldier.
  • The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English five, vif, fif, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.

Synonyms

5, basketball team, cinque, fin, five-spot, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V, v

Scrabble Score: 10

five: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
five: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
five: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

five: valid Words With Friends Word