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noun, plural fif·ties. 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.
Origin of fifty before 900; Middle English; Old English fīftig. See five, -ty1
Words nearby fifty fifth position, Fifth Republic, fifth wheel, fifth-wheel trailer, fiftieth, fifty , fifty-eight, fifty-eighth, fifty-fifth, fifty-fifty, fifty-first
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Example sentences from the Web for fifty For more than fifty years, women have been talking about what it means to be a woman.
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Fifty years ago, we were just beginning to learn some important lessons from natural disasters, epidemics, and manmade tragedies.
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Executing your dreams at forty or fifty ," Pragnell says, "is just a bit too late.
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When you get the kind of discharge I had, they give you a suit and fifty dollars.
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Fifty years later, the Reagan consensus prevails, it seems to me, more so than Roosevelt consensus.
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He was two hundred and fifty miles from London and had very little money.
Tales from Dickens | Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives
A dose of marchlor in a glass of wine had done what fifty men could not have accomplished by main strength.
The Martian Cabal | Roman Frederick Starzl
Turf benches to seat a hundred and fifty worshippers faced the altar.
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But years at fifty are no more than months at thirty,—are less than weeks in boyhood.
John Caldigate | Anthony Trollope
Clark had left twenty men, the Indian girl and her baby, and they had fifty horses.
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British Dictionary definitions for fifty noun plural -ties 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 Word Origin for fifty Old English fīftig
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