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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
/ ˈɪڳɪ /
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
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fifty1
Example Sentences
More than fifty years ago, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black also recognized the importance of that freedom after a leak of the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and Washington Post.
“If SCE failed to properly ground these idle lines that have been sitting there for fifty years, that was a disaster waiting to happen — and they will have to answer for that to a jury.”
Martin has fifty billion reasons to be nervous about the Oval Office get together.
Nonetheless, the American case is distinctive, and its special character worth examining, if we’re to understand the kind of imperial disintegration that might take place over the next fifty years.
At the railway station, fifty thousand civilians a day, mostly women and children, were boarding trains going west, away from the Russians.
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