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- pronunciation:
- fIfth
- parts of speech:
- adjective, noun
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
When you live on the fifth floor, it means that you live on the floor that comes after the fourth floor.
Allison was the fifth person to be chosen on the basketball team.
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
A fifth is one of five equal parts of a whole. One fifth is another way to write 1/5.
The five people in my family each ate one fifth of the apple pie, and then the pie pan was empty! |
| definition 2: |
The fifth is the number, person, or thing that comes next after the fourth in a series.
Ellie was the fifth to join the after-school choir. |
The word fifth
contains the following part:
-th1, -eth
Old English
adjective- and noun-forming suffix
that means in the position in a series indicated by the base number;
  More about this word part:
This suffix attaches to numbers to form ordinal numbers, such as "fourth
" from "four." The spelling -eth
is used when the base ends in y, as in "twentieth
" from "twenty."
Example words:
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, thirtieth, fortieth, fiftieth, hundredth
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