fifth

Meaning

Adj

The ordinal form of the number five.

Noun

1. The person or thing in the fifth position.
2. The person or thing in the fifth position.
3. One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
4. A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
5. The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
6. The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Verb

1. To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
2. To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
3. To divide by five.

Concepts

fifth

fifth part

one-fifth

5th

quint

twenty percent

five

fifthly

in the fifth place

poverty

slumminess

squalor

wretchedness

superfluous

extraneous

the fourth

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɪfθ/

Etymology

PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th. Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).

Sentences

A ritzy limousine was driving along the fifth avenue .