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fifth

/fɪfθ/ noun B1
  1. The person or thing in the fifth position.
  2. The fifth gear of a transmission.
  3. One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
  4. A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter). (US)
  5. The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
  6. The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

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“I beg your pardon,” said Alice very humbly: “you had got to the fifth bend, I think?”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 20 · B2
There is a piece in the Fifth Reader--‘The Downfall of Poland’--that is just full of thrills.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 52 · C1
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.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 52 · C1
They’re all in the fifth book and I’m only in the fourth.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 109 · C1

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