Five (fīv),
n. 1. The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.
Five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
Matt.
xxv. 2. 2. A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.
Five (?), a. [OE.
fif, five, AS.
fīf, fīfe; akin to D. vijf, OS. fīf, OHG. finf, funf, G.
fünf, Icel. fimm, Sw. & Sw. Dan. fem, Goth. fimf,
Lith. penki, W. pump, OIr. cóic, L. quinque, Gr. &?;, Æol. &?;, Skr. pa&?;can. √303. Cf. Fifth, Cinque, Pentagon, Punch the drink, Quinary.]
Four and one added; one more than
four.
Five nations (Ethnol.), a confederacy of the Huron-Iroquois Indians, consisting of
five tribes: Mohawks, Onondagas, Cayugas, Oneidas, and Senecas. They inhabited the region which is now the State of new
York.
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