'Fifth' definitions:
Definition of 'fifth'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position [syn: fifth, 5th]
noun
A quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
noun
Position five in a countable series of things; "he was fifth out of several hundred runners"
noun
noun
The musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
Definition of 'Fifth'
From: GCIDE
- Fifth \Fifth\, a. [OE. fifte, fifthe, AS. f[imac]fta. See Five.]
- 1. Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing. [1913 Webster]
- Fifth monarchy men (Hist.), a fanatical sect in England, of the time of the commonwealth, who maintained that there would be a fifth universal monarchy, during which Christ would reign on earth a thousand years.
- Fifth wheel, a horizontal wheel or segment above the fore axle of a carriage and beneath the body, forming an extended support to prevent careening. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fifth'
From: GCIDE
- Fifth \Fifth\, n.
- 1. The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mus.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fifth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- consecutive intervals,
- decimalization,
- decimation,
- degree,
- diapason,
- diatessaron,
- diatonic interval,
- diatonic semitone,
- enharmonic diesis,
- enharmonic interval,
- fivefold,
- fourth,
- half step,
- halftone,
- interval,
- less semitone,
- melodic interval,
- note,
- octave,
- parallel octaves,
- pentad,
- pentadic,
- pentastyle,
- pentavalent,
- quinary,
- quincuncial,
- quinquefid,
- quinquennial,
- quinquepartite,
- quinquepartition,
- quinquesection,
- quintuple,
- quintuplicate,
- second,
- semitone,
- seventh,
- sextipartition,
- sixth,
- step,
- tenth,
- third,
- tithe,
- tone,
- unison interval,
- whole step
Words containing 'Fifth'
- Fifthly,
- Fifth Street,
- Fifth monarchy,
- Fifth quarter,
- Fifth wheel,
- Hidden fifths,
- fifth amendment,
- fifth avenue,
- fifth column,
- fifth columnist,
- fifth crusade,
- fifth part,
- take the fifth,
- Fifth Street, TX,
- Fifth monarchy men,
- eighty-fifth,
- euclid's fifth axiom,
- fifth cranial nerve,
- fifth lateran council,
- fifty-fifth,
- forty-fifth,
- hundred-and-fifth,
- ninety-fifth,
- one-fifth,
- seventy-fifth,
- sixty-fifth,
- take the fifth amendment,
- thirty-fifth,
- twenty-fifth,
- hundred-and-fifty-fifth,
- hundred-and-forty-fifth,
- hundred-and-seventy-fifth,
- hundred-and-sixty-fifth,
- hundred-and-thirty-fifth,
- hundred-and-twenty-fifth