A quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon.

Roget 99: division by five etc. 98; quinquesection &c.; decimation; fifth etc.

Position five in a countable series of things.

One part in five equal parts.

synonyms: fifth part, one-fifth, twenty percent.

Dutch: vijfde

The musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it.

Polish: kwinta

Coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position.

synonym: 5th.

Roget 98: five, quinary^†, quintuple; fifth; senary^†, sextuple; sixth; seventh; septuple; octuple; eighth; ninefold, ninth; tenfold, decimal, denary^†, decuple^†, tenth; eleventh; duodenary^†, duodenal; twelfth; in one's 'teens, thirteenth.    vicesimal^†, vigesimal; twentieth; twenty-fourth etc. n.; vicenary^†, vicennial^†.    centuple^†, centuplicate^†, centennial, centenary, centurial^†; secular, hundredth; thousandth, etc. ... show more

Polish: piąty