Definitions for fiver

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fiver fiv·er

Spelling: [fahy-ver]

IPA: /ˈfaɪ vər/

Fiver is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in fiver (efirv).

Definitions for fiver

noun

1. a five-dollar bill.
2. British. a five-pound note.
3. a cardinal number, four plus one.
4. a symbol for this number, as 5 or V.
5. a set of this many persons or things.
6. a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with five pips.
7. Informal. a five-dollar bill:

Idioms

1. take five, Informal. to take a brief respite.

adjective

1. amounting to five in number.

Origin of fiver

First recorded in 1830-40; five + -er¹

Examples for fiver

I'll bet a fiver that beyond that you know nothing about it.

I called at your tailors' on my way to the noble Earl's, and—and I struck them for a fiver!

You can have any bullock you like—the biggest in the lot—for a fiver—but, cash down.

Besides, there'll be a fiver over, thanks to old Bacchus here.

So that if a chestnut was a fiver, and it beat a tenner, it became at one leap a fifteener.

Ill go a fiver that it has something to do with that Heathcote matter.

But no: they rest content with a fiver and cherish their wind.

The cost of living has gone up again since I thanked you for that fiver.

It struck me that you might offer me a fiver for my trouble.

“Certainly,” says he, and drops a fiver into it before he passes it over.