present participle of fifth

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.

simple past tense and past participle of fifth

The ordinal form of the number twenty-five.

The person or thing in the twenty-fifth position. / One of twenty-five equal parts of a whole.