fifty
Americannoun
plural
fifties-
a cardinal number, ten times five.
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a symbol for this number, as 50 or L.
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a set of this many persons or things.
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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.
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Informal. a fifty-dollar bill.
He had a fifty and two tens in his wallet.
adjective
noun
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the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
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a numeral, 50, L, etc, representing this number
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something represented by, representing, or consisting of 50 units
determiner
Etymology
Origin of fifty
before 900; Middle English; Old English fīftig. See five, -ty 1
Example Sentences
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The eastern-most port of the Erie Canal, Albany had grown to about fifty thousand residents.
From Literature
Markram reached fifty off 27 balls and hit four sixes and seven fours.
From Barron's
Drew Hinshaw is a senior reporter with The Wall Street Journal who has reported from more than fifty countries for the paper since 2010.
He walked back from the smooth ice, up the riverbank side, counting fifty steps out loud as he went along.
From Literature
“Aw, Daisy, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I couldn’t climb that sycamore. It’s the biggest one in those bottoms. Why, it’s a hundred and fifty feet to the first limb.”
From Literature
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