five

noun

Definition of fivenext
as in ten

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Recent Examples of five Logano is winless so far this season, and while there have been flashes—two top fives, a pole at Phoenix—there’s also been frustration. — Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 6 May 2026 LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts. — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026 Kit Kats and Snickers round out the top five, taking fourth and fifth place respectively. — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2025 All five also contested last year's leadership election won by Ishiba. — Satoshi Sugiyama, Reuters, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for five
Recent Examples of Synonyms for five
  1. ten
  2. two
  3. one
  4. fifty
  5. twenty
  6. hundred
Noun
  • Their current fibers measure about 1 millimeter across, but improved fabrication methods could reduce that thickness to tens of micrometers.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Waymo is in the process of increasing capacity in Mesa to manufacture tens of thousands of units per year.
    — Henry Payne, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of ten
Noun
  • The first week was Joe getting most of the twos and Sam mixing in.
    — Cal Phillips June 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 June 2026
  • Boston also finished effectively at the rim (8-for-10) and was efficient on non-paint twos (5-for-8), with Tatum excelling in both areas.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of two
Noun
  • Daisy says that no one even remembers that, though, that people only know about it because Hailey brings it up.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
  • And so the record is divided between tracks that capture the rush of losing yourself in a sea of bodies and the pain of being caught out at last call with no one to return home to.
    — Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of one
Noun
  • By now, Robin is in his early fifties and still living in Edinburgh.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
  • Just two players recorded fifties — England’s Harry Brook and Emilio Gay — and four different bowlers took five wickets or more in an innings, the first time that has happened in a Lord’s Test.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 9 June 2026
Definition of fifty
Noun
  • That is just a fraction of the more than $100 million in sales the brand was said to have logged in 2012, six years after twenty-something Sophia Amoruso started the business as an eBay store.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Ten or so attendees in their twenties and thirties settled across sofas, while a lo-fi YouTube music video was projected on a large screen, which mostly seemed to display a kitten wearing headphones.
    — Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Definition of twenty
Noun
  • The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation on Monday into an overnight cyberattack on refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 13 Oct. 2026
  • That’s when Wormie World, an art scavenger hunt featuring hundreds of adorable ceramic worms, will host its third annual free urban art hunt throughout the city’s central neighborhoods.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of hundred

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“Five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/five. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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