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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
fif·ty       [fif-tee] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -ties, adjective
–noun
1.a cardinal number, ten times five.
2.a symbol for this number, as 50 or L.
3.a set of this many persons or things.
4.fifties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 50 through 59, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature: She lives in the East Fifties. He's in his late fifties. It's going to be in the fifties again today.
5.Informal. a fifty-dollar bill: He had a fifty and two tens in his wallet.
–adjective
6.amounting to 50 in number.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE fīftig. See five, -ty1]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
fif·ty       (fĭf'tē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The cardinal number equal to 5 × 10.
  2. fifties
    1. A decade or the numbers from 50 to 59: They began playing golf in their fifties. With the sunshine, the temperature reached the fifties.
    2. often Fifties The decade from 50 to 59 in a century.
  3. A fifty-dollar bill.


[Middle English fifti, from Old English fīftig; see penkwe in Indo-European roots.]

fif'ty adj. & pron.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
fifty 
O.E. fiftig, from fif "five" + -tig "group of ten." (cf. O.N. fimm tigir, Du. vijftig, Ger. fünfzig). U.S. colloquial fifty-fifty "in an even division" is from 1913.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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fifty

adjective
1. being ten more than forty 

noun
1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five 
2. a United States bill worth 50 dollars [syn: fifty dollar bill] 

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Fifty Lakes, MN (city, FIPS 21032) Location: 46.74876 N, 94.09596 W
Population (1990): 299 (517 housing units)
Area: 75.2 sq km (land), 11.4 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 56448

Fifty Six, AR Zip code(s): 72533

Fifty-Six, AR (city, FIPS 23680) Location: 35.96040 N, 92.22992 W
Population (1990): 156 (76 housing units)
Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Fifty

Fif"ty\, a. [AS. f[=i]ftig; akin to OHG. finfzug, fimfzuc, G. f["u]nfzig, funfzig, Goth. fimftigjus. See Five, and Ten, and cf. Fifteen.] Five times ten; as, fifty men.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Fifty

Fif"ty\, n.; pl. Fifties. 1. The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.

2. A symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l.

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