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five

(fīv)

1. The cardinal number equal to 4 + 1.

2. The fifth in a set or sequence.

3. Something, such as a quintet or a basketball team, that has five parts, units, or members.

4. A five-dollar bill.

5. fives(used with a sing. verb) Sports One of several forms of handball originating in England and played mainly at British schools and universities, in which only the receiving side can score points.

Idiom:

give me/gimme five

Used when offering a high-five, as in congratulation.

[Middle English, from Old English fīf; see penk^we in Indo-European roots.]

five adj. & pron.

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fives

(faɪvz)

(Squash & Fives) (functioning as singular) a ball game similar to squash but played with bats or the hands

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fives - a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

court game - an athletic game played on a court

Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom

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Armand Moncharmin at the moment when they were deciding "to look into that little matter of Box Five."

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And to the entire commercial world it was for four or five years a sort of scientific Billiken, that never could be of any service to serious people.

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In order to keep his affairs in some sort of order, he used about five times a year (more or less frequently, according to circumstances) to shut himself up alone and put all his affairs into definite shape.

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His five friends of the Reform Club passed these three days in a state of feverish suspense.

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"I have ten left," said the man, "for here are eleven, and I had twenty-one, five more than last year.