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Synonyms for fifth

Grammar : Adj
Spell : fifth or, often, fith
Phonetic Transcription : fɪfθ or, often, fɪθ

Définition of fifth

Origin :
  • c.1200, fift, from Old English fifta, from fif "five" (see five) + -ta (see -th (1)). Altered 14c. by influence of fourth. Cf. Old Frisian fifta, Old Saxon fifto, Old Norse fimmti, Dutch vijfde, Old High German fimfto, German fünfte, Gothic fimfta.
  • Noun meaning "fifth part of a gallon of liquor" is first recorded 1938, American English. Fifth Avenue (in New York City) has been used figuratively for "elegance, taste" since at least 1858. Fifth wheel "superfluous person or thing" first attested 1902. Fifth-monarchy-man, 17c. for "anrachist zealot," is a reference to Dan. ii:44.
  • adj having five of something
Example sentences :
  • It is true there was a fifth farm situated right in between the others.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • On the fourth and fifth days, however, he had the reward for his caution.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • As she had two protectors against a fifth proposal of marriage, she stood her ground.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • I cannot decide which way to turn to reach Fifth Avenue again.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • His steeds are not "faultless monsters" like the Dauphin's palfrey in Henry the Fifth.
  • Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
  • In the fifth act King Henry takes on the voice and nature of buried Hotspur.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • And so the two friends were shot up together to the fifth floor.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • The mountains might be five thousand feet tall or only a fifth of that.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • But along about the middle of the fifth week I see a change.
  • Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 3. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
  • The former, I was in the habit of often seeing, until I reached my fifth or sixth year.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

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