Adjacent Words

Fifth definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FIFTH, a. [See Five.]
1. The ordinal of five; the next to the fourth.
2. Elliptically, a fifth part; or the word may be considered as a noun, as to give a fifth or two fifths.
FIFTH, n. In music, an interval consisting of three tones and a semitone.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position [syn: fifth, 5th] n
1: a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
2: position five in a countable series of things; "he was fifth out of several hundred runners"
3: one part in five equal parts [syn: one-fifth, fifth, fifth part, twenty percent]
4: the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural fifths) Etymology: Middle English fifte, fifthe, from Old English f?fta, from f?f five Date: before 12th century 1. — see number table 2. a. the musical interval embracing five diatonic degrees b. a tone at this interval; specifically dominant 1 c. the harmonic combination of two tones at this interval 3. a unit of measure for liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon (0.757 liter) 4. capitalized the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution; also the right accorded by the Fifth Amendment to refuse to testify against oneself — usually used in the phrase take the Fifth • fifth adjective or adverb • fifthly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. 1 the position in a sequence corresponding to that of the number 5 in the sequence 1-5. 2 something occupying this position. 3 the fifth person etc. in a race or competition. 4 any of five equal parts of a thing. 5 Mus. a an interval or chord spanning five consecutive notes in the diatonic scale (e.g. C to G). b a note separated from another by this interval. 6 US colloq. a a fifth of a gallon of liquor. b a bottle containing this. --adj. that is the fifth. Phrases and idioms: fifth column a group working for an enemy within a country at war etc. (from General Mola's reference to such support in besieged Madrid in 1936). fifth-columnist a member of a fifth column; a traitor or spy. Fifth Monarchy the last of the five great kingdoms predicted in Daniel
2:44. Fifth-monarchy-man hist. a 17th-c. zealot expecting the immediate second coming of Christ and repudiating all other government. fifth part = sense 3 of n. fifth wheel 1 an extra wheel of a coach. 2 a superfluous person or thing. 3 a horizontal turntable over the front axle of a carriage as an extra support to prevent its tipping. take the fifth (in the US) exercise the right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of refusing to answer questions in order to avoid incriminating oneself. Derivatives: fifthly adv. Etymology: earlier and dial. fift f. OE fifta f. Gmc, assim. to FOURTH

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fifth Fifth, a. [OE. fifte, fifthe, AS. f[=i]fta. See Five.] 1. Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five. 2. Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing. Fifth monarchy men (Hist.), a fanatical sect in England, of the time of the commonwealth, who maintained that there would be a fifth universal monarchy, during which Christ would reign on earth a thousand years. Fifth wheel, a horizontal wheel or segment above the fore axle of a carriage and beneath the body, forming an extended support to prevent careening.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fifth Fifth, n. 1. The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(fifths) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. The fifth item in a series is the one that you count as number five. Joe has recently returned from his fifth trip to Australia. ORD 2. A fifth is one of five equal parts of something. India spends over a fifth of its budget on defence. FRACTION

Moby Thesaurus

consecutive intervals, decimalization, decimation, degree, diapason, diatessaron, diatonic interval, diatonic semitone, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic interval, fivefold, fourth, half step, halftone, interval, less semitone, melodic interval, note, octave, parallel octaves, pentad, pentadic, pentastyle, pentavalent, quinary, quincuncial, quinquefid, quinquennial, quinquepartite, quinquepartition, quinquesection, quintuple, quintuplicate, second, semitone, seventh, sextipartition, sixth, step, tenth, third, tithe, tone, unison interval, whole step