Five

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Five \Five\ (f[imac]v), n.
     1. The number next greater than four, and less than six; five
        units or objects.
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              Five of them were wise, and five were foolish.


                                                    --Matt. xxv.
                                                    2.
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     2. A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Five \Five\ (f[imac]v), a. [OE. fif, five, AS. f[imac]f,
     f[imac]fe; akin to D. vijf, OS. f[imac]f, OHG. finf, funf, G.
     f["u]nf, Icel. fimm, Sw. & Sw. Dan. fem, Goth. fimf, Lith.
     penki, W. pump, OIr. c['o]ic, L. quinque, Gr. pe`nte, [AE]ol.
     pe`mpe, Skr. pa[~n]can. [root]303. Cf. {Fifth}, {Cinque},
     {Pentagon}, {Punch} the drink, {Quinary}.]
     Four and one added; one more than four.
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     {Five nations} (Ethnol.), a confederacy of the Huron-Iroquois
        Indians, consisting of five tribes: Mohawks, Onondagas,
        Cayugas, Oneidas, and Senecas. They inhabited the region
        which is now the State of new York.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  five
       adj : being one more than four [syn: {5}, {v}]
       n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: {5},
             {V}, {cinque}, {quint}, {quintet}, {fivesome}, {quintuplet},
             {pentad}, {fin}, {Phoebe}, {Little Phoebe}]
       2: a team that plays basketball [syn: {basketball team}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "five":
     cast, company, complement, crew, eight, eleven, first string,
     first team, nine, platoon, reserves, rowing crew, second string,
     second team, squad, string, team, third string, varsity