Definitions for fives
fives

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fivesnoun

   a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fivesnoun

   a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall

2. fivesnoun

   A pair of fives.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fivesnoun

   1. A kind of play with a bowl.2. A disease of horses.

   His horse sped with spavins rayed with the yellows, past cure of the fives, and stark spoiled with the staggers. William Shakespeare.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fives

   Fives (historically known as hand-tennis) is an English handball sport derived from jeu de paume, similar to the games of handball, Basque pelota, and squash. The game is played in both singles and doubles teams, in an either three- or four-sided court.

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1. fives

   "Fives" is a term commonly used in reference to a group or unit of five. It can be a plural noun, representing five individuals, objects, units, or numerical representation '5'. Also, it's a term used in several games played with hand or racket where points are scored by hitting a ball against a wall.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fives

   a kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game

2. Fivesnoun

   a disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives

3. Etymology: [See Vives.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fives

   Fives is an English sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racquet sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using a gloved or bare hand as though it were a racquet.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fives

   fīvz, n. (Shak.) vives, a disease of horses.

2. Fives

   fīvz, n.pl. a game of handball played in a roomy court against a wall, chiefly at the great public schools of England.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fives

   An old game at ball, usually played by five on each side. The “court” consists of a roomy space with a high wall at one end.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FIVES

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fives is ranked #87335 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Fives surname appeared 213 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fives.
   
   95.3% or 203 total occurrences were White.

Matched Categories

1. • Court Game

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fives' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4689

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How to pronounce fives?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say fives in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fives in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fives in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of fives in a Sentence

1. Englishman Fleetwood:

   If you can score on the par-fives, you can shoot a good score and that's basically where I made all my numbers up today, it was just nice to have a day like that and just constantly feel at ease really with hitting good golf shots.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

3. Matt Kuchar:

   Today was better even than yesterday, i had a nice round over in La Quinta, and La Quinta may be the toughest of the three courses, just how tight and narrow La Quinta is. Here you've got a little more space and reachable par-fives.

4. Jeb Bush:

   They’re doing high fives in the Clinton campaign right now when they hear this.

5. Kevin Kisner:

   There were a lot of birdie opportunities and I was happy to cap it off( with eagle), i could reach a couple of them( the par-fives in two) which always helps me.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fives
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fives
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=fives
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fives
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fives
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=fives
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=fives
9. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=fives
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
11. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fives