Fives is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FIVES in dictionary:

NUMERAL:
• equivalent to the sum of two and three; one more than four, or half of ten; 5
• a group or unit of five people or things
• five years old
• a size of garment or other merchandise denoted by five.
• a playing card or domino with five pips.
• five o'clock
NOUN:
• FIVE, a number
• ball game resembling squash
• A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.
• A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
• a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

Words related to FIVES

five10

Words that contain FIVES

spoilfives18

How to use FIVES in a sentence

• The idea of grouping should never be lost sight of, and larger numbers should at first be names for so many threes, fours, fives, etc.
• Then their military automobiles came trembling and sputtering to the doorsteps, and in groups of fours and fives they went out to the firing line.
• Still, the one man had increased his bids by fives and the other only by ones.
• The tactics had changed, and it was the turn of Strellenhaus now to advance by ones, while his rival sprang up by fives.
• In fives and tens, in twenties and thirties, all between me and the remote limit of my vision, they leapt, they lingered long, they fell.
• Horsfalliae in having the leaflets in sets of threes instead of fives, and, moreover, they are quite entire.
• The leaves are in fives and not so stiff as those of the other pines, and you will notice that the branches are in whorls, like a series of stages one above another.
• A few of the more intelligent among them understand the meaning of 2 fives, but this number seems entirely beyond the comprehension of the ordinary native.
• By the time 20 is reached the savage has probably allowed his conception of any aggregate to be so far modified that this number does not present itself to his mind as 4 fives.
• Counting by means of his fingers, without including the thumbs, the savage begins by dividing into fours instead of fives.
• I had been playing fives in the garden and got much heated.
• Altogether, creeping in on many roads, coming in their fours and fives, they made about three hundred.
• Notation, like numeration, began with ones, advanced to fives, then to tens, etc.
• They are fives and tens, and by far the best specimens of that kind of work I have ever seen.
• This morning we had been playing at fives together.
• And five dollars, added to other fives and tens and twenty-fives, soon amounts to an amazing whole when anxiety holds the pencil.
• For example, any two figures between 45 and 55, the value of the upper fingers would be 50, which is the half-way point between the two fives.
• In modern music it is extremely unusual to find notes grouped in fives, or measures having the rhythmic value of five beats, or periods made up of measures in fives.
• Both Koraks and Chukchis count by fives instead of tens, a peculiarity which is also noticeable in the language of the Co-Yukons in Alaska.
• There were many twenty dollar pieces, some fives and tens and a little bundle of bank notes.

Similar words containing FIVE without suffix s

five10 fiver11 fivers12 fivepin15 fivefold18 fivepins16 fivepence19 fivepenny20 spoilfive17 fivefinger20 fivepences20 spoilfives18 fivefingers21

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