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five    Audio Help   [fahyv] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a cardinal number, four plus one.
2.a symbol for this number, as 5 or V.
3.a set of this many persons or things.
4.a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with five pips.
5.Informal. a five-dollar bill: Can you give me two fives for a ten?
–adjective
6.amounting to five in number.
—Idiom
7.take five, Informal. to take a brief respite.
[Origin: bef. 1000; 1925–30 for def. 7; ME; OE fīf; c. D vijf, G fünf, ON fimm, Goth fimf, L quīnque, Gk pénte, Skt pancha]
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Main Entry:  five
Part of Speech:  adjective
Synonyms:  pentagonal, pentamerous, quinary, quinate, quinquennial, quintuple
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Main Entry:  five
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  cinque, cinquefoil, limerick, lustrum, pentacle, pentad, pentagon, pentagram, pentangle, quincunx, quinquennial, quinquennium, quintette, quintuple, quintuplet, quintuplets. associatedwords: quinary, quintuplicate
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Main Entry:  five
Part of Speech:  verb
Synonyms:  quintuple
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Five, The, name of a group of late 19th-century Russian composers. They were Balakirev, the leader, Cui, Moussorgsky, Borodin, and Rimsky-Korsakov. These men, united by a nationalistic fervor, tried to write music of distinctively Russian character, drawing on the history, literature, and folklore of their country.

See V. I. Seroff, The Mighty Five (1948); M. O. Zetlin, The Five (tr. 1959).

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