Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five.

Fifth, 5th, or The Fifth may also refer to:

  • Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth"
  • Fifth Avenue
  • Fifth column, a political term
  • Fifth disease, a contagious rash that spreads in school-aged children
  • Fifth force, a proposed force of nature in addition to the four known fundamental forces
  • Fifth of July (New York), historic celebration of an Emancipation Day in New York
  • Fifth (Stargate), a robotic character in the television series Stargate SG-1
  • Fifth (unit), a unit of volume formerly used for distilled beverages in the U.S.
  • 1st Battalion, 5th Marines
  • The fraction , one of five equal parts of a whole
  • The royal fifth (Spanish and Portuguese), an old royal tax of 20%

Music

  • A musical interval; specifically, a
  • perfect fifth
  • diminished fifth
  • augmented fifth
  • Quintal harmony, in which chords concatenate fifth intervals (rather than the third intervals of tertian harmony)
  • Fifth (chord)
  • A chord (music), member separated from the chord's root by one of the above fifth-intervals
  • The dominant (music) or fifth diatonic scale degree, and the chord built on it
  • Musical compositions
  • Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven), commonly referred to as Beethoven's Fifth
  • Fifth (Soft Machine album), 1972
  • The Fifth (Bad Boys Blue album), 1989
  • The Fifth (Dizzee Rascal album), 2013
  • The Fifth (Obie Trice album), 2019
  • 5th (Lee Michaels album), 1971
  • Fifth (The Autumn Defense album), 2014
  • "Fifths", a song by Deadmau5
  • Fifths (or Kvintit), a piece from Rautavaara's Études
  • The Fifth (band), a hard rock band from Fayetteville, North Carolina

Places

  • 5th meridian east, a line of longitude extending through Europe and Africa
  • 5th meridian west, a line of longitude extending through Europe and Africa
  • 5th parallel north, a circle of latitude above the Equator
  • 5th parallel south, a circle of latitude below the Equator
  • 5th Street (disambiguation)
  • Fifth Avenue (disambiguation)

Time

  • 5th century
  • 5th century BC

Dates

  • Fifth of the month, a recurring calendar date
  • Fifth of January
  • Fifth of February
  • Fifth of March
  • Fifth of April
  • Fifth of May
  • Fifth of June
  • Fifth of July
  • Fifth of August
  • Fifth of September
  • Fifth of October
  • Fifth of November
  • Fifth of December

See also

  • 1/5 (disambiguation)
  • Fiver (disambiguation)