fifty
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ti 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.
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Fifty
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five |
| 2. | a numeral, 50, L, etc, representing this number |
| 3. | something represented by, representing, or consisting of 50 units |
| —determiner | |
| 4. | a. amounting to fifty: fifty people |
| b. (as pronoun): fifty should be sufficient | |
| [Old English fīftig] | |
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Word Origin & History
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.
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Example sentences
Fifty students, or about a fifth of those surveyed, met the authors' criteria for addiction to indoor tanning.
And so, fifty years after the end of colonialism, the nation seems finally to be coming into its own.
Nevertheless, there have between fifty to eighty students enrolling each year.
Fifty-three percent said they didn't think hearing protection was needed.
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