- 5
- There are only five cookies left.
- five of Sweden’s top financial experts
- Ten people were invited but only five turned up.
- Do you have change for five dollars?
- a five-month contract
- Look at page five.
- Five and four is nine.
- Three fives are fifteen.
- I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a five?
- The bulbs are planted in threes or fives (= groups of three or five).
- We moved to America when I was five (= five years old).
- Shall we meet at five (= at five o'clock), then?
Word OriginOld English fīf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vijf and German fünf, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin quinque and Greek pente.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See five in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee five in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishfive a day
- (especially British English) the amount of fruit or vegetables that some organizations say you should eat in order to be healthy
- Start your five a day with a banana for breakfast.
give somebody five
- (informal) to hit the inside of somebody’s hand with your hand as a way of saying hello or to celebrate a victory
- Give me five!
nine to five
- the normal working hours in an office
- I work nine to five.
- a nine-to-five job
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