fifth

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  1. noun The ordinal number matching the number five in a series.
  2. noun One of five equal parts.
  3. noun One fifth of a gallon or four fifths of a quart of liquor.
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  • It had lost five in a row before the streak, but four of those five came by six points or fewer and the fifth was a blowout loss at Memphis, the defending national runner-up. —  Daily News-Record
  • The top of the fifth was the Quakers 'biggest offensive inning, as Tom Grandieri started things off with a single up the middle. —  Yale Bulldogs News -- www.yalebulldogs.com
  • The Mariners increased their lead in the ninth against the Minnesota bullpen on a two-run single by struck out three times, but his RBI single in the fifth was the only damage for Minnesota. —  Yahoo! Sports - Top News
  • Michael Cuddyer struck out three times, but his RBI single in the fifth was the only damage for Minnesota.
  • Four of the men allegedly involved in the raid struck deals to testify against Simpson while a fifth was the sports star's co-defendant. —  Turkish Press
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  1. Middle English, from Old English fīfta; see penkwe in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also fift; from Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Anglo-Saxon fīfta = Old Saxon fifto = OFries. fīfta = Dutch vijfde = Middle Low German vīfte, vifte, Low German fīfte, föfte = Old High German fimfto, finfto, Middle High German G. fünfto = Icelandic fimmti = Swedish Danish femte = Gothic (Moesogothic) *fimfta (not recorded) = Latin quintus = Greek πέμ πτος = Sanskrit panchatha (very rare: usually panchama, with different suffix), fifth; from Anglo-Saxon fīf, English five, etc., + -tha, -ta, -th, ordinal suffix.
 

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