fifth
/fɪfθ/ noun B1- The person or thing in the fifth position.
- The fifth gear of a transmission.
- One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
- A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
- The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
- The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
Plural fifths
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‘Erected in the fifth year of the reign of James I, and standing upon the site of a much older building, the Manor House of Birlstone presents one of the finest surviving examples of the moated Jacobean residence—’”
Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
There is a piece in the Fifth Reader--‘The Downfall of Poland’--that is just full of thrills.
Of course, I wasn’t in the Fifth Reader--I was only in the Fourth--but the big girls used to lend me theirs to read.”
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