fives
- 1Plural of five. Use this form when you mean more than one five.
She rolled two fives in a row and won the game.
The teacher asked the children to count by fives.
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- 2A ball game in which players hit a ball against a wall using their hands.
Like tennis, but you hit the ball against a wall with your hand instead of over a net.
We played fives against the school wall every lunchtime.
He was the best at fives in his whole year.
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- 3In card games, two cards in your hand that both show the number five.
He had fives and hoped to draw a third to match them.
She bet big with just fives in her hand.
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- 4In a prison, the cells on the fourth floor of a wing.
He spent his first month locked up on fives.
The noise from fives carried down to the lower floors at night.
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Less common meaning
- 5Shares or bonds that pay five percent interest each year.
Like a savings account that pays you five percent every year.
He invested most of his savings in fives that spring.
Look what the funds were on the 1st of March—what the French fives were when I bought for the count. And what they're at now.
1847, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity FairHere, fives means government bonds that pay five percent interest.Note
fives is a form of five
five, noun: The written symbol that stands for the number 5. Full entry
- Forms
- fivefives plural
- Spelling
- five → fives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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