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fif⋅ty

   [fif-tee]
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, -ty 1
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Language Translation for : Fifty
Spanish: cincuenta, German: die Fünfzig, Japanese: 50
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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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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: (46.747211, -94.072462)
Population (2000): 392 (515 housing units)
Area: 29.028916 sq mi (land), 4.148735 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 56448

Fifty Lakes, MN (city, FIPS 03521032)
Location: (46.747211, -94.072462)
Population (2000): 392 (515 housing units)
Area: 29.028916 sq mi (land), 4.148735 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 56448

Fifty-Six, AR (city, FIPS 23680)
Location: (35.960474, -92.230072)
Population (2000): 163 (87 housing units)
Area: 2.061415 sq mi (land), 0.003936 sq mi (water)

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
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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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