n. & adj.
--n.
1. one more than four or one half of ten; the sum of three units and two units.
2 a symbol for this (5, v, V).
3 a size etc. denoted by five.
4 a set or team of five individuals.
5 the time of five o'clock (is it five yet?).
6 a card with five pips.
7 Cricket a hit scoring five runs.
--adj. that amount to five.
Phrases and idioms:
bunch of fives Brit. sl. a hand or fist. five-corner (or -corners) Austral.
1. a shrub of the genus Styphelia.
2 the pentagonal fruit of this. five-eighth Austral. & NZ Rugby Football either of two players between the scrum-half and the centre three-quarter. five-finger exercise 1 an exercise on the piano involving all the fingers.
2 an easy task. five hundred a form of euchre in which 500 points make a game. five o'clock shadow beard-growth visible on a man's face in the latter part of the day. five-star of the highest class.
five-year plan
1. (in the USSR) a government plan for economic development over five years, inaugurated in 1928.
2 a similar plan in another country.
Etymology: OE fif f. Gmc