fifth
- Proper noun. (chiefly, US) The Fifth Amendment.
- Proper noun. (chiefly, US) The right not to give self-incriminating testimony.
- Proper noun. (chiefly, US) Fifth Avenue.
- Proper noun. (chiefly, US) Fifth Street.
- Adjective. The ordinal form of the number five.
- Noun. The person or thing in the fifth position.
- Noun. One of five equal parts of a whole.
- Noun. The fifth gear of an engine.
- Noun. A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters.
- Noun. The musical interval between one note and another five tones higher.
- Noun. The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
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