fifth
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fifth/fɪfθ/
▶ordinal number
- 1 constituting number five in a sequence; 5th.
- 2 (a fifth/one fifth) each of five equal parts into which something is or may be divided.
- 3 Music an interval spanning five consecutive notes in a diatonic scale, in particular (also perfect fifth) an interval of three tones and a semitone.
■ the note which is higher by such an interval than the root of a diatonic scale.
- 4 US informal a fifth of a gallon, as a measure of alcoholic drink.
– phrases
take the fifth (in the US) exercise the right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of refusing to answer questions in order to avoid incriminating oneself.
take the fifth (in the US) exercise the right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of refusing to answer questions in order to avoid incriminating oneself.
– derivatives
fifthly adverb.
fifthly adverb.
'fifth' also found in these Oxford entries:
Ab
- Carboniferous
- Cmnd.
- common chord
- cor anglais
- cornet
- cuboid
- dactylic hexameter
- discord
- dominant
- E
- en passant
- epsilon
- fifth column
- fifth-generation
- Fifth-monarchy-man
- fifth wheel
- former
- G
- gear
- Jupiter
- khoum
- Leo
- Lonsdale belt
- May
- minor
- Passion Sunday
- pons asinorum
- quinary
- quincunx
- quint
- quinta
- quintain
- quinte
- quintessence
- quintet
- quintile
- quintuple
- Sebat
- silver jubilee
- silver wedding
- soh
- spondaic
- Sub-Atlantic
- tarsus
- triad
- twelfth
- viola
- Y
