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  1. noun The cardinal number equal to 4 + 1.
  2. noun The fifth in a set or sequence.
  3. noun Something, such as a quintet or a basketball team, that has five parts, units, or members.
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  • We found five -- five best matches, which we call the five foundations of morality. —  Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives
  • Two of the five were absent from New York Colonel John "Renny" Renwick, engineer, was in Germany, attending an international association of engineers conclave. —  031 - The Majii
  • The other five were a good cross-section; two younger women and three men of varying ages. —  Analog, July/August 2003
  • "And then five other men got in Yeah, the five were the jaws of the trap that got us," Monk explained. —  139 - Weird Valley
  • One of the five has been here at various times for fifteen years. —  MADELEINE: An Autobiography
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  1. Middle English, from Old English fīf; see penkwe in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English five, earlier fif, from Anglo-Saxon fīf, rarely with plural termination fīfe = Old Saxon OFries. fīf = Middle Low German vīf, Low German fīf = Dutch vijf = Old High German finf, fimf, funf, Middle High German vunf, vünf, German fünf = Icelandic fimm = Swedish Danish fem = Gothic (Moesogothic) fimf = Latin quinque (for *pinque) (later Italian cinque = Spanish Portuguese cinco = Provencal cinc = French cinq) = Oscan pomtis = Welsh pump = Old Irish cōic, modern Irish cūig = Gaelic cōig, cūig = Greek πέντε, dial. πέμπε = Lithuanian penki = Lettish peezi = Old Bulgarian pentĭ = Slov. peti = Bohemian paty = Servian peti = Polish piaty = Russian pyatĭ = Sanskrit pancha, five (whence ult. English punch, q. v.). Hence fifth, fifty, etc.
 

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