Definition of fifth Fifth

/fɪˈfθ/ - [fifth] - fifth

We found 19 definitions of fifth from 6 different sources.

What does fifth mean?

Noun Plural: fifths
fifth - position five in a countable series of things; "he was fifth out of several hundred runners"
		rank a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"
fifth - the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
fifth - a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
Adjective fifth, fifther, fifthest
fifth - coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position
		5th
		ordinal being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh"

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fifth (Noun)
The person or thing in the fifth position.
fifth (Noun)
One of five equal parts of a whole.
fifth (Noun)
The fifth gear of an engine.
fifth (Noun)
A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters.
fifth (Noun)
The musical interval between one note and another five tones higher.
fifth (Noun)
The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
fifth (Adjective)
The ordinal form of the number five.

fifth (a.)
Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.
fifth (a.)
Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.
fifth (n.)
The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
fifth (n.)
The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

fifth
fifth, adj. next after the fourth.—n. one of five equal parts: (mus.) a tone five diatonic degrees above or below any given tone.—adv. Fifth′ly, in the fifth place.—ns. Fifth′-mon′archism; Fifth′-mon′archist.—Fifth-monarchy men, an extreme sect of the time of the Puritan revolution, who looked for the establishment of a new reign of Christ on earth, in succession to Daniel's four great monarchies of Antichrist. [A.S. fífta.]

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fifth in sign language