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Webster 1913 Edition

Five

(fīv)

Adj.

[OE.

fif

five

, AS.

fīf

fīfe

; akin to D.

vijf

, OS.

fīf

, OHG.

finf

funf

, G.

fünf

, Icel.

fimm

, Sw. & Sw. Dan.

fem

, Goth.

fimf

, Lith.

penki

, W.

pump

, OIr.

cóic

, L.

quinque

, Gr.

πέντε

, Æol.

πέμπε

, Skr.

pañcan

. √303. Cf.

the drink,

Four and one added; one more than four.

Five nations

(Ethnol.)

a confederacy of the Huron-Iroquois Indians, consisting of five tribes: Mohawks, Onondagas, Cayugas, Oneidas, and Senecas. They inhabited the region which is now the State of new York.

Five

(fīv)

Noun.

The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.

Five

of them were wise, and

five

were foolish.

Matt. xxv. 2.

A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.

Webster 1828 Edition

Five

FIVE

, a.

Four and one added; the half of ten; as five men; five loaves. Like other adjectives, it is often used as a noun.

Five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Matt. 25.

Definition 2024

Five

See also: five

English

Proper noun

Five

(Britain) Abbreviation of MI5.

Synonyms

(Security Service):

5
MI5
Security Service

Coordinate terms

Six (MI6)

five

See also: Five

English

**English numbers**
	50
< 4	5	6 >
Cardinal : five Ordinal : fifth Multiplier : quintuple

Alternative forms

Arabic numerals: 5 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
Roman numerals: V

Numeral

five

(cardinal) A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six. This many dots: (•••••).

Related terms

fifth

Translations

five (5)

Abaza: хвба ‎(x°bā)
Abkhaz: хуба ‎(x°bā)
Abung: lemou
Adyghe: тфы ‎(tfə)
Afrikaans: vyf
Ainu: アシㇰネ ‎(ashikne)
Aka-Bo: kumugyĭ
Alabama: táɬɬàapi
Albanian: pesë (sq)
Alutiiq: talliman
American Sign Language: ^{(please verify)}
Amharic: አምስት (am) ‎(ʾämst) (numeral: ፭ ‎(5))
Amis: lima
Arabic: خَمْسَة ‎(ḵamsa) (numeral: ٥ ‎(5))
Egyptian Arabic: خمسة ‎(ḵamsa)
Aragonese: cinco, cinc
Aramaic:

Hebrew: חמשא m ‎(ħamšā’), חמש f ‎(ħamiš)

Syriac: ܚܡܫܐ m ‎(ħamšā’), ܚܡܫ f ‎(ħamiš)
Archi: ллъо
Armenian: հինգ (hy) ‎(hing)
Aromanian: tsintsi
Assamese: পাঁচ ‎(pā̃s)
Asturian: cinco (ast)
Aymara: phisqa (ay)
Azeri: beş (az)
Balinese: limə
Bashkir: биш ‎(biš)
Basque: bost (eu)
Belarusian: пяць ‎(pjacʹ), (collective) пяцёра ‎(pjacjóra)
Bengali: পাঁচ (bn) ‎(pãc) (numeral: ৫ ‎(5))
Breton: pemp (br)
Bulgarian: пет (bg) ‎(pet)
Burmese: ငါး (my) ‎(nga:) (numeral: ၅ (my) ‎(5))
Cakchiquel: wo'o'
Catalan: cinc (ca)
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⵎⵎⵓⵙ ‎(smmus)
Central Tarahumara: marí
Chamicuro: pichka
Chechen: пхиъ ‎(pχiʾ)
Cherokee: ᎯᏍᎩ ‎(hisgi)
Chichewa: sanu
Chickasaw: talhlhá'pi, tulhape
Chinese:

Cantonese: 五 ‎(ng⁵)

Hakka: 五 ‎(ng3)

Min Dong: 五 ‎(ngu), 五 ‎(ngou)

Min Bei: 五 ‎(ngo)

Min Nan: (Xiamen) 五 (zh-min-nan) ‎(go, ngò), (Teochew) ngou6

Mandarin: 五 (zh) ‎(wǔ) (numeral: 伍 (zh))

Wu: 五 ‎(ng)
Chol: jo'p'ej
Chuvash: пиллӗк ‎(pillĕk), пилӗк ‎(pilĕk)
Cia-Cia: lima
Cochimi: sarap
Cornish: pymp
Corsican: cinqui (co)
Cree: nîyânan
Crimean Tatar: beş
Crow: chiaxxó
Czech: pět (cs), (collective) patery
Dalmatian: čenc
Danish: fem (da)
Dargwa: шол ‎(šol)
Dena'ina: ch'qilu
Dhivehi:
Dutch: vijf (nl)
Erzya: вете ‎(vete)
Esperanto: kvin (eo)
Estonian: viis (et)
Ewe: atɔ̃
Faroese: fimm (fo)
Finnish: viisi (fi)
French: cinq (fr)
Old French: cinc
Friulian: cinc
Ga: enumɔ
Galician: cinco (gl)
Garifuna: seingü
Ge'ez: ኀምስቱ m ‎(ḫämstu), ኀምስ f ‎(ḫäms) (numeral: ፭ ‎(5))
Georgian: ხუთი (ka) ‎(xuti)
German: fünf (de)
Gilbertese: nimaua
Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌼𐍆 ‎(fimf)
Greek: πέντε (el) ‎(pénte), ε΄ ‎(e΄) (numeral)
Ancient Greek: πέντε ‎(pénte)
Greenlandic: tallimat (kl)
Guaraní: po (gn)
Gujarati: પાંચડો ‎(pāṃcaḍo) (numeral: ૫ (gu) ‎(5))
Hadza: botáno
Haitian Creole: senk
Hausa: bìyar̃
Hawaiian: lima, ʻelima
Hebrew: חָמֵשׁ (he) f ‎(khamésh) (used in counting), חֲמִשָּׁה (he) m ‎(khamisha)
Hindi: पाँच (hi) ‎(pāca) (numeral: ५ (hi) ‎(5))
Hopi: tsivot
Hungarian: öt (hu)
Hunsrik:
Icelandic: fimm (is)
Ido: kin (io)
Inabaknon: lima
Inari Sami: vittâ
Indonesian: lima (id)
Interlingua: cinque
Interlingue:
Irish: cúig (ga)
Old Irish: cóic
Istriot: sinque
Istro-Romanian: ćinć
Italian: cinque (it)
Japanese: 五 (ja) ‎(ご, go), 五つ (ja) ‎(いつつ, itsutsu), ５ (ja) ‎(5)
K'iche': jo'ob'
Kannada: ಐದು (kn) ‎(aidu) (numeral: ೫ (kn) ‎(5))
Karachay-Balkar: беш ‎(beş)
Karaim: bieš
Karelian: viisi
Kashubian: piãc
Kazakh: бес (kk) ‎(bes)
Khakas: пис ‎(pis)
Khanty: (Kazym) вет ‎(wet)
Khinalug: пхьу ‎(pxu)
Khmer: ប្រាំ (km) ‎(pram) (numeral: ៥ ‎(5))
Kiliwa: salchipam
Komi-Zyrian: вит ‎(vit)
Korean: 다섯 (ko) ‎(daseot), 오 (ko) ‎(o) (五 (ko))
Kumiai: sarap
Kurdish:

Kurmanji: pênc (ku)

Sorani: پێنج ‎(pênc)
Kyrgyz: беш (ky) ‎(beş)
Ladin: cinch
Lakota: záptaŋ
Lao: ຫ້າ ‎(hā) (numeral: ໕ ‎())
Latgalian: pīci m, pīcys f
Latin: quīnque (la)
Latvian: pieci (lv) m, piecas f
Lenape:
Unami: palenàxk
Lithuanian: penki (lt) m, penkios f
Livonian: vīž
Lojban: mu (jbo)
Low German:
German Low German: fîf
Luxembourgish: fënnef (lb)
Macedonian: пет (mk) ‎(pet)
Madurese: lɛma
Malay:

Rumi: lima (ms), panca

Jawi: ليم, ڤنچا

Malayalam: അഞ്ചു ‎(añcu), അഞ്ച് (ml) ‎(añc)
Maltese: ħamsa
Manchu: sunja
Mangarevan: rima
Mansi: ат ‎(at)
Manx: queig
Marathi: पाच ‎(pāch)
Eastern Mari: визыт ‎(vizət)
Maricopa: sarapk, srap
Marshallese: ļalem
Matlatzinca: rokut'a
Minangkabau: limo
Mirandese: cinco
Mojave: tharap
Moksha: вете ‎(vete)
Mongolian: тав (mn) ‎(tav), ^{(please verify)}ᠲᠠᠪᠤᠨ ‎(tabun) (numeral: ᠕)
Montagnais: patetat
Mulam: 五 ‎(kwən1)
Nahuatl: makwilli, macuilli (nah)
Nama: koro
Nauruan: aijimo (na)
Navajo: ashdlaʼ
Ndzwani Comorian: -tsanu
Neapolitan: cìnche
Nepali: पाँच (ne) ‎(paach)
North Frisian:

Föhr-Amrum and Mooring: fiiw

Helgoland: fiuw

Sylt: fif
Northern Sami: vihtta
Norwegian: fem (no)
Novial: sink
O'odham: hetasp
Occitan: cinc (oc)
Ojibwe: naanan
Old Church Slavonic:

Cyrillic: пѧть ‎(pętĭ)

Glagolitic: ⱂⱔⱅⱐ ‎(pętĭ)
Old English: fif
Old French: cinc
Old Frisian: fīf
Old Norse: fimm
Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐱁 ‎(béš)
Oriya: ପାଞ୍ଚ (or) ‎(pāñch) (numeral: ୫)
Oroqen: tʊŋŋa
Ossetian: фондз ‎(fonʒ)
Ottoman Turkish: بش ‎(beš)
Paipai: sirap
Palauan: eim
Papiamentu: sinku
Pashto: پنځه ‎(pinjë)
Pennsylvania German:
Persian: پنج (fa) ‎(panj) (numeral: ۵)
Piedmontese:
Pipil: makwil, macuil
Polish: pięć (pl), (collective) pięcioro (pl)
Portuguese: cinco (pt)
Punjabi: ਪੰਜ ‎(paṅj) (numeral: ੫ ‎(5))
Quechua: pichka, pisqa (Cusco), pichka (San Martín), phisqa (South Bolivian), picga, pizga
Rajasthani:
Rapa Nui: ka rima
Ratahan: lima
Rohingya: fañs
Romani: pānj
Romanian: cinci (ro)
Roviana: lima
Russian: пять (ru) ‎(pjatʹ), (collective) пя́теро (ru) ‎(pjátero)
Rusyn: пять ‎(pjatʹ)
Rwanda-Rundi: gatanu
S'gaw Karen: ယဲၢ် ‎(yɛ̱)
Sanskrit: पञ्चन् (sa) ‎(páñcan)
Santali:
Sardinian: chimbe
Saterland Frisian: fieuw
Scottish Gaelic: còig, còignear m (when counting people)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: пе̑т

Roman: pȇt
Shan: ႁႃႈ ‎(haa3)
Sichuan Yi: ꉬ ‎(nge)
Sicilian: cincu (scn)
Sikkimese: ང ‎(nga)
Silesian: pjyńć
Sindhi: پَنجَ ‎(panja)
Sinhalese: පහ (si) ‎(paha)
Skolt Sami: vitt
Slovak: päť
Slovene: pét (sl)
Somali: shan (so)
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: pěś

Upper Sorbian: pjeć
Southern Sami: vïjhte
Spanish: cinco (es)
Sukuma: itaano
Swazi: sihlánu
Swedish: fem (sv)
Tagalog: lima (tl)
Tahitian: pae
Tajik: панҷ (tg) ‎(panj)
Tamil: ஐந்து (ta) ‎(aintu) (numeral: ௫ ‎(௫)), ஐந்து (ta) ‎(aintu)
Taos: p’ą́nyuo
Taroko: lima
Tashelhit: semmos m, semmost f
Tatar: биш (tt) ‎(biş)
Telugu: ఐదు (te) ‎(aidu) (numeral: ౫ (te) ‎(5))
Tetum: lima
Thai: ห้า (th) ‎(hâa) (numeral: ๕ (th))
Tibetan: ལྔ ‎(lnga) (numeral: ༥ ‎(5))
Tigre: ሐምስ ‎(ḥaməs) (numeral: ፭ ‎(5))
Tigrinya: ሓሙሽተ ‎(ḥamuštä) (numeral: ፭ ‎(5))
Tlahuica: kuit'aa
Tocharian A: päñ
Tocharian B: piś
Tok Pisin: faipela
Tswana: tlhano
Turkish: beş (tr)
Turkmen: bäş (tk)
Tuvaluan: lima
Tz'utujil: kho’o
Ubykh: ʃxə
Udmurt: вить ‎(vitʹ)
Ukrainian: п'ять (uk) ‎(pʺjatʹ)
Umbrian: 𐌐𐌖𐌌𐌐𐌄 ‎(pumpe)
Urdu: پانچ ‎(pāñc)
Uyghur: بەش (ug) ‎(besh)
Uzbek: besh (uz)
Venetian: sinque, zsinque
Veps: viž
Vietnamese: năm (vi)
Volapük: lul (vo)
Votic: viiz, вииз
Võro: viiś
Wallisian: nima
Walloon: cénk (wa)
Waray-Waray: lima
Welsh: pump (cy)
West Frisian: fiif (fy)
Winnebago: saacą
Wiradhuri: marra
Xhosa: ntlanu
Yakut: биэс ‎(bies)
Yaqui: mámni
Yiddish: פֿינף ‎(finf)
Yoruba: márùn-ún
Yucatec Maya: jo'
Yup'ik: talliman
Zhuang: ngux, haj
Zulu: hlanu
Zuni: apde

Noun

five ‎(plural fives)

The digit/figure 5.
He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
(US) A five-dollar bill.
Can anyone here change a five?
Anything measuring five units, as length.
All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
A person who is five years old.
The fives and sixes will have snack first, then the older kids.
five o'clock
See you at five.
A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
Take five, soldier.