five
n.n. the number that comes after four and before six. You have five fingers on each hand.
n. the cardinal number equivalent to the sum of four and one. Represented by the symbol 5.
I have five apples in my bag.
The office closes at five o'clock every evening so the staff can go home to their families.
The research team divided the participants into five distinct groups to test how different environmental factors influenced their overall productivity levels.
PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fyf, fyve, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii. The nasal m in Proto-Germanic fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
Functions as a determiner when preceding a noun or as a noun when referring to the digit itself.