Fifth

See also: fifth

English

Etymology

(Fifth Amendment): From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in US legal proceedings.

Proper noun

Fifth

  1. (chiefly US, informal, with the) The Fifth Amendment.
  2. (chiefly US, informal, with the, by extension) The right not to give self-incriminating testimony.
  3. (chiefly US) Fifth Avenue.
    • 2003, Cecily Von Ziegesar, Because I'm worth it‎:
      […] besides marrying Nate Archibald and living happily every after in the ivy-covered brick town house just off Fifth that she already had picked out
  4. (chiefly US) Fifth Street.

Translations
Fifth Amendment — see Fifth Amendment
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