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Traditional English :: five
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five - n. & adj. --n. 1 one more than four or one half of ten; the sum of three units and two units.
2 a symbol for this (5, v, V).
3 a size etc. denoted by five.
4 a set or team of five individuals.
5 the time of five o'clock (is it five yet?).
6 a card with five pips.
7 Cricket a hit scoring five runs. --adj. bunch of fives Brit. sl. a hand or fist. five-corner (or -corners) Austral.
1 a shrub of the genus Styphelia.
2 the pentagonal fruit of this. five-eighth Austral. & NZ Rugby Football either of two players between the scrum-half and the centre three-quarter. five-finger exercise 1 an exercise on the piano involving all the fingers.
2 an easy task. five hundred a form of euchre in which 500 points make a game. five o'clock shadow beard-growth visible on a man's face in the latter part of the day. five-star of the highest class. five-year plan 1 (in the USSR) a government plan for economic development over five years, inaugurated in 1928.
2 a similar plan in another country. [OE fif f. Gmc] |
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Most Often Usage
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high five
across five aprils
five alive
alpha five
big brother five
ben fold five brick
five crown
dinner for five
fab five
fact sheet five
factory five racing
factory five
dallas five
party of five
dave clark five
channel five
force five
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