five

five /faɪv/ BrE AmE number, noun
[Language: Old English; Origin: fif]
1. the number 5:
There is also a golf course five miles away.
I’ll be back by five (=five o'clock).
The family moved to Canada when he was five (=five years old).
2. [countable] a piece of paper money that is worth five dollars or five pounds ⇨ fiver:
Do you have two fives for a ten?
3. give somebody (a) five informal to hit the inside of someone’s hand with your hand to show that you are very pleased about something
4. take five spoken used to tell people to stop working for a few minutes
5. fives [uncountable] a British ball game in which the ball is hit with the hand against any of three walls ⇨ handball
⇨ ↑high five, ↑nine to five

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

five

five [five fives] [faɪv] [faɪv] number
5
• There are only five cookies left.
• five of Sweden's top financial experts
• Ten people were invited but only five turned up.
• Do you have change for five dollars?
• a five-month contract
• Look at page five.
• Five and four is nine.
• Three fives are fifteen.
• I can't read your writing— is this meant to be a five?
• The bulbs are planted in threes or fives (= groups of three or five).
• We moved to America when I was five (= five years old).
• Shall we meet at five (= at five o'clock), then?
see also high five
more at nine to five at nine
Idiom: give somebody five
Word Origin:

Old English fīf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vijf and German fünf, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin quinque and Greek pente.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

five / faɪv / number

A1 the number 5:

Five, four, three, two, one, blast-off!

I work five days a week.

→ See also high five

Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

five

[fa͟ɪv]
♦
fives
1) NUM Five is the number 5.
2) N-UNCOUNT Fives is a British ball game in which you hit a small hard ball with a glove or bat against three walls of a court.
3) → See also high five

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

five

five /ˈfaɪv/ noun, pl fives
1 [count] : the number 5
2 [count] : the fifth in a set or series
• the five of clubs
• page five
3 [noncount] : five o'clock
• I get off work at five.
• The store is open until five.
4 [count]
a US : a five-dollar bill
• The total cost was $3.83 and she gave him a five.
b Brit : a five-pound note : fiver
- five adj
• five years
- five pronoun
• Five (of them) are missing.