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fifty-ninth

[ fif-tee-nahynth ]

adjective

  1. next after the fifty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 59.
  2. being one of 59 equal parts.


noun

  1. a fifty-ninth part, especially of one (1/59).
  2. the fifty-ninth member of a series.

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Example Sentences

I tell you, Kate, there's a moving picture theatre down there at Fifty-ninth Street that keeps going till after one.

Oftener, however, we turned at Fifty-ninth Street, walking both ways.

He was in the sixty-fourth year of his age, and in the fifty-ninth of his reign.

Coaches were numerous, pedestrians many, and in Fifty-ninth Street the street cars were crowded.

From Seventh to Fifty-ninth streets, the avenue presents a continuous line of magnificent mansions.

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