fifth

About 27.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective The ordinal form of the number five.
2. noun The person or thing in the fifth position. The fifth gear of a transmission.
3. noun The fifth gear of a transmission.
4. noun One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
5. noun A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
6. noun The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
7. noun The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
8. verb To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Similar words

one-fifth ordinal fifth part twenty percent sixth seventh five fifteenth fiftieth twenty-fifth

Often followed by

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Word family

5th fifthly fifths the Fifth