(chiefly US, informal, with the) The Fifth Amendment. / (chiefly US, informal, with the, by extension) The right not to give self-incriminating testimony. / (chiefly US) Fifth Avenue.

The person or thing in the fifth position. / One of five equal parts of a whole. / The fifth gear of an engine.

The ordinal form of the number five.

(music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody. / (transitive) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so. / (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.

plural of fifth

The quality of being or coming fifth.

simple past tense and past participle of fifth

present participle of fifth

The ordinal form of the number seventy-five, describing a person or thing in position number 75 of a sequence.

(music) an interval equal to that of between the second and third harmonics of the harmonic series; in equal temperament, an interval of seven semitones spanning five degrees of the diatonic scale. It is enharmonically equivalent to a diminished sixth.