fifth
Meanings
Plural: fifths
Noun
- a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
- position five in a countable series of things
- "he was fifth out of several hundred runners"
- one part in five equal parts
- the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
- The person or thing in the fifth position.
- The person or thing in the fifth position.
- The fifth gear of a transmission.
- One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
- A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
- The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
- The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
Adjective Satellite
- coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position
Adj
- The ordinal form of the number five.
Verb
- To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
- To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
- To divide by five.
Origin / 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 (ordinal suffix). 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”).
Synonyms
5th, fifth part, one-fifth, twenty percent, V, V., Vth, ⅕
Scrabble Score: 14
fifth is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordfifth is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fifth is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary