Definition of "five"

five

/faɪv/

numeral
1. A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
  Quotations
  The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.
  2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 197
2. Describing a group or set with five elements.
noun
plural fives
1. The digit/figure 5.
2. A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.
3. Anything measuring five units, as length.
4. A person who is five years old.
5. Five o'clock.
6. A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
7. (basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.