The ordinal form of the number five.

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

(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.

(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

The quality of being or coming fifth.

present participle of fifth

simple past tense and past participle of fifth

Any of various men who worked closely with the Beatles, including George Martin, Pete Best, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Billy Preston.

plural of fifth rate