Dictionary

fives en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /faɪvz/
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Meanings

1. (plural, plural-only, slang) A pair of fives.
2. (UK, uncountable) A ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
   • Liza on her first visit to the school had greatly admired everything about it from the fives courts and the chapel to the plaster casts in the corridors and the photographs of cathedrals in the classrooms. 1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 4.4, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 94:
3. (form-of, plural) plural of five
   form of five
4. (UK, plural, plural-only, slang) The cells located on the fourth floor.
5. (archaic, plural, plural-only) Shares at a rate of five percent.
   • 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 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

Coordinates

threes · twos · ones · fours

Relateds

5's · 5s · bunch of fives

Translations (2)

ru пятёрки (plural of 'five') · fi viitospari (pair of fives)