FIVES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fives mean? 

• FIVES (noun)
  The noun FIVES has 1 sense:

1. a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

  Familiarity information: FIVES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIVES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

court game (an athletic game played on a court)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Don't cry any more. —And I am sure we never had a word of difference respecting it, except when Mr. Copperfield objected to my threes and fives being too much like each other, or to my putting curly tails to my sevens and nines, resumed my mother in another burst, and breaking down again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)