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fifty
[ fif-tee ]
noun
- a cardinal number, ten times five.
- a symbol for this number, as 50 or L.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- 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.
- Informal. a fifty-dollar bill:
He had a fifty and two tens in his wallet.
adjective
- amounting to 50 in number.
fifty
/ ˈfɪftɪ /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
- a numeral, 50, L, etc, representing this number
- something represented by, representing, or consisting of 50 units
determiner
- amounting to fifty
fifty people
- ( as pronoun )
fifty should be sufficient
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Example Sentences
Gävle Goat must be dreading the imminent holiday and his fifty-fifty chance of destruction.
For more than fifty years, women have been talking about what it means to be a woman.
Fifty years ago, we were just beginning to learn some important lessons from natural disasters, epidemics, and manmade tragedies.
Executing your dreams at forty or fifty," Pragnell says, "is just a bit too late.
When you get the kind of discharge I had, they give you a suit and fifty dollars.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
In particular the Governor of Adinskoy offered us a guard of fifty men to the next station, if we apprehended any danger.
Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.
Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.
It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.
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