What does fives mean?
Fives means plural of five.
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/faɪvz/ · noun
plural of five.
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.
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.
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Fives means plural of five.
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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.
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