fives

F4I1V4E1S1
/faɪvz/

noun

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

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Meanings

fives1

noun
  1. pluralplural of five
nounfives (uncountable)
  1. UKuncountableA ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.

    Liza on her first visit to the school had greatly admired everything about it from the fives courts and the chapel to the plaster casts in the corridors and the photographs of cathedrals in the classrooms.

    1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 4.4, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 94
nounfives pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyslangcard gamesA pair of fives.
  2. UKpluralplural onlyslangThe cells located on the fourth floor.
  3. archaicpluralplural onlybusinessShares at a rate of five percent.

    Look what the funds were on the 1st of March—what the French fives were when I bought for the count. And what they're at now.

    1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

Fives2

proper noun
  1. A suburb of Lille, Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
hand tennis

Translations

Finnish viitospari
  • viitosparipair of fives
Russian пятёрки
  • пятёрки (pjatjórki)plural of 'five'

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with fives

diveshiveschives
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Cite this entry
APA

fives. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fives

MLA

“fives.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fives. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fives,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fives.

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