fifth

CEFRA2

/fɪfθ/

number · adjective · noun

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01
number
Coming after the fourth in a series.
02
number
Extra detail
The person or thing in the fifth position.

Examples

A fire broke out on the fifth floor.
He came in fifth in the race.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 3
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/fɪft/
/fɪθ/

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adjective

Extra meaning

The ordinal form of the number five.

noun

Extra meanings

One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
The fifth gear of a transmission.

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In context

Our office is located on the fifth floor of the building.
On Friday, at a former Michelin factory in the north-east of the city, the finishing touches were being put in place for the fifth Dundee design festival, which opens on Monday.
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

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On Friday, at a former Michelin factory in the north-east of the city, the finishing touches were being put in place for the fifth Dundee design festival, which opens on Monday.
2024 September 21, Eve Livingston, “‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee”, in The Guardian
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
1984, Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah”, in Various Positions
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.
1996, Music in Early English Religious Drama: Minstrels playing, page 510
Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced.
1978, Discant and the Theory of Fifthing
A lisping young “Soundings,” or master’s assistant, sung out “I thecond the mothon,” instantly transferring his beer to our hero’s face. In short the resolution was thirded, fourthed, fifthed, and sixthed, all following suit with the swipes:[…]
1854 January, “Tregonhorke’s First Trip in a Man-of-War”, in Hunt’s Yachting Magazine, volume the third, London: Hunt and Son, […]; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., […], page 14

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Origin

number

PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).