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fifty-first

[ fif-tee-furst ]

adjective

  1. next after the fiftieth; being the ordinal number for 51.
  2. being one of 51 equal parts.


noun

  1. a fifty-first part, especially of one (1/51).
  2. the fifty-first member of a series.

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And for starters, where would that fifty-first star go, anyway?

The anthem was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme, made for five voices by one of Captain Cooke's boys, a pretty boy.

Hoppner died on the 23d January 1810, in the fifty-first year of his age.

There is no tradition that Beethoven ever explained why he called this his fifty-first, or the F minor his fifty-fourth Sonata.

"Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

Sick of the equatorial fever, or of chagrin from failure, Drake died off Porto Bello in the fifty-first year of his age.

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