Definition of Fifth

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Definition of Fifth

Fifth

Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.

Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.

The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

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Fifth Quotations

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
Emo Philips

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
Kurt Vonnegut

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
Jeff Foxworthy

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.
Tina Fey

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
Fiona Apple

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
Sam Levenson

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
Rod Serling

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
E. M. Forster

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Helen Rowland

Fifth Translations

fifth in Afrikaans is vyfde
fifth in Danish is femte
fifth in Dutch is vijfde
fifth in Finnish is viides
fifth in Italian is quinto
fifth in Norwegian is femte
fifth in Portuguese is quinto
fifth in Spanish is quinto
fifth in Swedish is femte

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