/ faɪv; NAmE / number 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?
—see also high five
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IDIOMS
- give sb five
—more at nine
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English fīf , of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vijf and German fünf , from an Indo-European root shared by Latin quinque and Greek pente .