Meaning & use
pentad
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A group or series of five things.
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The critic analyzed the pentad of novels as a single unified saga.
Ancient philosophers sometimes organized their cosmology around a pentad of elements.
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From Greek "pente" (five), "pentad" parallels other numerical groupings like "triad" and "decade," though it is far less common in everyday speech.
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