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fivefold
adjective five·fold \ˈfīv-ˌfōld, -ˈfōld\
: five times as great or as many
Full Definition of FIVEFOLD
1
: having five units or members
2
: being five times as great or as many
— five·fold \-ˈfōld\ adverb
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First Known Use of FIVEFOLD
before 12th century
Rhymes with FIVEFOLD
acold, age-old, ahold, all told, behold, bifold, billfold, black gold, blindfold, blue mold, bread mold, choke hold, controlled, Cotswold, cuckold, eightfold, enfold, fanfold, fool's gold, foothold, fourfold, freehold, gatefold, go gold, green mold, handhold, head cold, household, ice-cold, infold, knock cold, leaf mold, leasehold, make bold, ninefold, old gold, onefold, on hold, pinfold, potholed, roothold, scaffold, sheepfold, sixfold, slime mold, stokehold, stone-cold, stronghold, take hold, tenfold, threefold, threshold, toehold, twice-told, twofold, unfold, unmold, untold, uphold, white gold, whole-souled, withhold
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