FIFTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fifth mean? 

• FIFTH (noun)
  The noun FIFTH has 4 senses:

1. a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon

2. position five in a countable series of things

3. one part in five equal parts

4. the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it

  Familiarity information: FIFTH used as a noun is uncommon.

• FIFTH (adjective)
  The adjective FIFTH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position

  Familiarity information: FIFTH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIFTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("fifth" is a kind of...):

United States liquid unit (a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Position five in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Context example:

he was fifth out of several hundred runners

Hypernyms ("fifth" is a kind of...):

rank (relative status)

Derivation:

fifth (coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position)

Sense 3

Meaning:

One part in five equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

fifth; fifth part; one-fifth; twenty percent

Hypernyms ("fifth" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fifth" is a kind of...):

interval; musical interval (the difference in pitch between two notes)

• FIFTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position

Synonyms:

5th; fifth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

Derivation:

fifth (position five in a countable series of things)

 Context examples 

This same fifth house is the house of pregnancy and birth, and if you hope for a baby, you have the universe behind you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A condyloid synovial joint within the fifth digit of the hand connecting the metacarpal to the proximal phalanx.

(Metacarpophalangeal Joint 5, NCI Thesaurus)

“Why not?” answered the peasant: “but he only says four things, and the fifth he keeps to himself.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Following the third position in an ordering or series; coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position.

(Fourth, NCI Thesaurus)

A condyloid synovial joint within the fifth digit of the foot connecting metatarsal with the proximal phalanx.

(Metatarsophalangeal Joint 5, NCI Thesaurus)

It affects predominantly adults in their fifth and sixth decades of life and is associated with alcohol and tobacco use.

(Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This fifth trip was quite different from any of the others.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The fifth night he had in Guest to dine with him; and the sixth he betook himself to Dr. Lanyon’s.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We stayed a day at Mannheim, and on the fifth from our departure from Strasburgh, arrived at Mainz.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Fifth disease is a viral infection caused by parvovirus B19.

(Fifth Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)