| Fifth Republic | |
| —n | |
| the French republic established in 1958 as the successor to the Fourth Republic. Its constitution is characterized by the strong position of the president | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |