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.

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

(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.

plural of fifth

simple past tense and past participle of fifth

present participle of fifth

The quality of being or coming fifth.

(cricket) The slip fielding position beyond the fourth slip.

(US, education) The period in school that comes after fourth grade and before sixth grade.