Read full poem →Turn, turn to willing hearts your wanton fires,
To Number Five direct your doves,
There spread round Murray all your blooming loves
Dictionary Entry
The digit/figure 5.
In a Sentence
“He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
years fivehundred fiveminutes fivedays fivethousand five. five
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Poetry examples for “five”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Tennyson continued working on the “‘Idylls”’ for twenty-
five years more. In 1862, he published the second edition
with the Dedication to the memory of Prince Albert. In
Read full poem →Five days to die in yet were autumn's, ere
The last leaf withered from his flowerless wreath.
Read full poem →Five o'clock. The geraniums are very gay in their crimson array.
The bellying clouds swing over the housetops, and over the roofs goes Peter
Read full poem →now " — may well be contrasted with Prior's charm-
ing verses, " To a Child of Quality, five years
old," written half a century later. The exquisite
Read full poem →In the just figure of a fort,
And with five bastions it did fence, '^ c ^
As aiming one for every sense. ^
Read full poem →Where on the earth in mournful case they lay;
Five porches were there, and a pool, and round,
Huddling in blankets, strewn upon the ground,
Read full poem →Is it not enough?
What, is there three, four, five?
Read full poem →Gone to Milan, it seems; then I go also to Milan.
Five days now departed; but they can travel but slowly;--
I quicker far; and I know, as it happens, the home they will go to.--