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Definition of Fivesome
1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
Generic synonyms: Digit, Figure
2. Noun. Five people considered as a unit.
Definition of Fivesome
1. Noun. A group of five persons or things. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fivesome
Literary usage of Fivesome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"They band his legs beneath the steed, They tied his hands behind his back; They
guarded him, fivesome on each side, And they brought him ower the ..."
2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1912)
"... his legs beneath the steed, They tied his hands behind his back ; They guarded
him, fivesome on each side, And they brought him ower the Liddel-rack. ..."
3. Old English Ballads by Francis Barton Gummere (1894)
"They band his legs beneath the steed, They tied his hands behind his back ; They
guarded him, fivesome on each side, And they brought him ower the ..."
4. Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems by William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1916)
"3 They band his legs beneath the steed, They tied his hands behind his back ; »
They guarded him, fivesome on each side, And they brought him ower the ..."
5. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1860)
"They band his legs beneath the steed, They tied his hands behind his back; w They
guarded him, fivesome on each side, And they brought him ower the ..."
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