Definitions for fifths

fifths fifth

Spelling: [fifth or, often, fith]
IPA: /fɪfθ or, often, fɪθ/

Fifths is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in fifths (ffhist).

Definitions for fifths

noun

  1. a fifth part, especially of one (1/5).
  2. the fifth member of a series.
  3. a fifth part of a gallon of liquor or spirits; 4/5 (0.8) of a quart (about 750 milliliters).
  4. Automotive. fifth gear.
  5. Music. a tone on the fifth degree from another tone (counted as the first). the interval between such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones.

Idioms

  1. take the Fifth, Informal. to decline on the basis of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to answer a question when testifying.

adverb

  1. in the fifth place; fifthly.

adjective

  1. next after the fourth; being the ordinal number for five.
  2. being one of five equal parts.
  3. Automotive. of, relating to, or operating at the gear transmission ratio at which the drive shaft speed is greater than that of fourth gear for a given engine crankshaft speed:

Origin of fifths

before 1000; earlier fift, Middle English fifte, Old English fīfta; -th by analogy with fourth, etc.

Examples for fifths

I cannot decide which way to turn to reach fifth Avenue again.

The Interview, their fifth feature together, is undoubtedly their most controversial.

It is true there was a fifth farm situated right in between the others.

Even though it was a school day—about fifth period, I calculated—the arcade was filled with seventh graders.

As she had two protectors against a fifth proposal of marriage, she stood her ground.

As late as the fifth century, powerful aristocratic women took charge of the commemoration of the dead in Rome.

But on Thursday Boxer triggered a Golden State political earthquake, announcing that she would not seek a fifth term in 2016.

On the fourth and fifth days, however, he had the reward for his caution.

His steeds are not "faultless monsters" like the Dauphin's palfrey in Henry the fifth.

Each two-hour episode will build upon itself to tell a story that takes place between the third and fifth seasons of the show.

Word Value for fifths
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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