Fifth

[fɪfθ]

Definition

(noun.) the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it.

(noun.) a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon.

(noun.) position five in a countable series of things; 'he was fifth out of several hundred runners'.

(adj.) coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position .

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Definition

(a.) Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.

(a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

(n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

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Definition

adj. next after the fourth.—n. one of five equal parts: (mus.) a tone five diatonic degrees above or below any given tone.—adv. Fifth′ly in the fifth place.—ns. Fifth′-mon′archism; Fifth′-mon′archist.—Fifth-monarchy men an extreme sect of the time of the Puritan revolution who looked for the establishment of a new reign of Christ on earth in succession to Daniel's four great monarchies of Antichrist.

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