fifth
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Is fifth a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (ellipsis or nominalization) The person or thing in the fifth position.
2. (ellipsis or nominalization) The person or thing in the fifth position.ellipsis
3. (US) A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).US
4. (music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)Examples: "Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth"
verb (English)
1. (music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.Examples: "Another extension of strict organum is 'fifthing'. Fifthing is a note-against- note method of creating a two-part texture by improvising a second voice over the given tune, starting and ending each musical phrase at the octave and proceeding mainly in fifths above the tune at others times."; "Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced."
2. (transitive, informal) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.Examples: "Though seconding (or fifthing) the praise for “BoJack Horseman” and “In Treatment,” I think I’ll use the majority of my space to discuss “You’re the Worst.”"informaltransitive
3. (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.Examples: "3/5 has been through fifthing. 2/3 has been through thirding. Therefore, 3/5 now needs thirding and 2/3 needs fifthing"nonstandardtransitive
name (English)
1. (chiefly US, informal, with the) The Fifth Amendment.USinformal
2. (chiefly US, informal, with the, by extension) The right not to give self-incriminating testimony.USbroadlyinformal
3. (chiefly US) Fifth Avenue.Examples: "[…] besides marrying Nate Archibald and living happily every after in the ivy-covered brick town house just off Fifth that she already had picked out"US
4. (chiefly US) Fifth Street.US
Definition source: Wiktionary