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- [fahyv]
- /faɪv/
- /faɪv/
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- [fahyv]
- /faɪv/
Definitions of five word
- noun five a cardinal number, four plus one. 1
- noun five a symbol for this number, as 5 or V. 1
- noun five a set of this many persons or things. 1
- noun five a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with five pips. 1
- noun five Informal. a five-dollar bill: Can you give me two fives for a ten? 1
- adjective five amounting to five in number. 1
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Origin of five
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; 1925-30 for def 7; Middle English; Old English fīf; cognate with Dutch vijf, German fünf, Old Norse fimm, Gothic fimf, Latin quīnque, Greek pénte, Sanskrit pancha
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Parts of speech for Five
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
five popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
five usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for five
adj five
- quintuple — fivefold; consisting of five parts.
- pentagon — a polygon having five angles and five sides.
- pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
- quinary — pertaining to or consisting of five.
- quinate — arranged in groups of five.
noun five
- cinquefoil — any plant of the N temperate rosaceous genus Potentilla, typically having five-lobed compound leaves
- pentangle — pentagram.
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- lustrum — Also, luster; especially British, lustre. a period of five years.
- cinque — the number five in cards, dice, etc
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