five

Meanings

1. 1
   num

   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
   noun

   The digit/figure 5.

   He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.

3. 3
   noun

   A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.

   Can anyone here change a five?

4. 4
   noun

   Anything measuring five units, as length.

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

5. 5
   noun

   A person who is five years old.

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

6. 6
   noun

   Five o'clock.

   See you at five.

7. 7
   noun

   A short rest, especially one of five minutes.

   Take five, soldier.

8. 8
   adj

   being one more than four

Etymology

PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fyf, fyve, 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 (“bevera…