noun
- a group or set of five
- a period of five years
Usage: formal
Usage: formal
Examples
- The committee was organized as a pentad of experts from different fields.
- Each pentad in the study represented five consecutive years of data.
- The ancient Greeks often grouped things in pentads for symbolic reasons.
- The research project was divided into pentads for easier analysis.
- A pentad of students volunteered to help with the school fundraiser.
- The historian examined each pentad of the century separately.