Definition of One-fifth

1. Noun. One part in five equal parts.

Exact synonyms: Fifth, Fifth Part, Twenty Percent
Generic synonyms: Common Fraction, Simple Fraction

Lexicographical Neighbors of One-fifth

one-day cricket
one-day international
one-day internationals
one-day match
one-day matches
one-dimensional
one-dimensional language
one-dimensionality
one-drop rule
one-eared
one-eighth
one-eyed
one-eyed jack
one-eyed jacks
one-fifth (current term)
one-finger salute
one-finger salutes
one-flowered pyrola
one-flowered wintergreen
one-form
one-fourth
one-half
one-hand
one-handed
one-hit wonder
one-hitter
one-horned uterus
one-horse
one-horse town

Literary usage of One-fifth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"In raising, cultivating, and harvesting the crops ; such expenses to be shared equally between the parties, that Is, each to pay one-fifth part thereof, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas, and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Christopher Puller, A. Moore (1826)
"Ruth and Margaret, two of the seven sisters, died DACKE without issue, whereby the other five sisters became each seised ' f°r life of one-fifth of these ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The proportion of English emigrants was thus less than one-fifth, and assuming the same to have been the case during the whole period, it may be calculated ..."

4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1840)
"institutions would be one fifth of their assets, and in the other three fifths thereof. In the one the currency would amount to one fifth of the capital ..."

5. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1851)
"The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are— It was decided in the negative ..."

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