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# five

«five» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 5, one more than four** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number (five, fives); noun (a five)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Five is the number 5, one more than four. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#m1)

2) A five is the digit 5, or a five-dollar or five-pound note. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#m2)

3) «High five» means slapping hands together to say well done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

an amount of things; in maths counting in fives (5, 10, 15, 20), the five times table, a hand has 5 fingers; in everyday life «five o'clock», «give me five»

### examples

- Student: two apples and five pears [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#x1)
- Five friends share 20 grapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#x2)
- Leo has five boxes of 3 pens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#x3)
- A hand has 5 fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#x4)
- Count in fives: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#x5)
- School finishes at five past three. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#x6)
- Ben is five years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#x7)
- Give me a high five! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#x8)
- Here, take these five gold pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/#x9)

### note

A number word: read it as the digit 5. A hand has 5 fingers; a five-sided shape is a pentagon. Order word «fifth» (5th), not «fiveth». Trap: it may be the number of groups, not the number of things.

### In the corpora

- [A year later the rematch is a draw, and they high-five over the board.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «five» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/five/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.