fifth
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- adjective
- /fɪfθ/
:
quinto
- Sam and Molly are sitting in the fifth row of a crowded auditorium.
- a fifth-grade student
- fifth century B.C.
- fourth and fifth
I want to say for the fifth time yet I am.
- I want to say for the fifth time yet I am.
- So there was a fifth person we don't know about.
- Yeah, I actually pitched that as our fifth grade graduation song.
- OK, it wants to resolve down to the fifth in some instances.
- And then this is our fifth year of doing beauty founders.
- Well girl in fifth grade who got pregnant.
- So we had just opened our fifth location.
- I think in many ways, school the fifth form of wealth.
- This is the fifth time I've had possums visit us.
- Numerous command and staff positions within Fifth Special Forces Group.
- So he presented Fifth Group with the United States Embassy.
Examples
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We're on the fifth floor.
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Two fourth-grade classes and two fifth-grade classes were tested during the study.
Academic text (2011) -
So we had just opened our fifth location.
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So the first step, second step, third step, this is the fifth step of that sequence.
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And then this is our fifth year of doing beauty founders.
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The results of the fifth ballot are...
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The excavations revealed 18 very rare horse burials dating to the early fifth century B.C.
Academic text (2011) -
In the first decades of the fifth century B.C., the competition to dominate Sicily intensified.
Academic text (2011) -
A long line of patrons stretches down Fifth Avenue, waiting to get into the Saturday Night Opry.
Fiction book (1990) -
We are celebrating our fifth anniversary this year.
Idioms
- Formal
19
8.3
To refuse to answer questions in court to avoid saying something that could make you look guilty
- Formal
5
7.5
Refuse to answer questions in court or by police to avoid saying you did something wrong
Compounds
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4.7
A US legal right that protects people from forced testimony, being tried twice, and unfair legal process
- Specialized
A rule that says there is exactly one line through a point that is parallel to a given line
- Specialized
A main nerve in the face that carries feeling and controls chewing muscles
A Crusade from 1218 to 1221 where European Christians tried to take Jerusalem by attacking Egypt but failed
A council of Catholic leaders in Rome 1512–1517 that made church reforms and planned a crusade against the Turks
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Etymology
Fifth comes from Old English fifta, made from five plus the ending -th that marks order. So it means 'after the fourth' or number five in a sequence.