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fifty

[ fif-tee ]

noun

plural fifties.
  1. a cardinal number, ten times five.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 50 or L.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.
  4. 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.

  5. Informal. a fifty-dollar bill:

    He had a fifty and two tens in his wallet.



adjective

  1. amounting to 50 in number.

fifty

/ ˈ´Úɪ´Ú³Ùɪ /

noun

  1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
  2. a numeral, 50, L, etc, representing this number
  3. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 50 units
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

determiner

    1. amounting to fifty

      fifty people

    2. ( as pronoun )

      fifty should be sufficient

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of fifty1

before 900; Middle English; Old English ´ÚÄ«´Ú³Ù¾±²µ. See five, -ty 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of fifty1

Old English ´ÚÄ«´Ú³Ù¾±²µ
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Martin has fifty billion reasons to be nervous about the Oval Office get together.

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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.

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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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Smith is yet to score a fifty in his seven one-day internationals but impressed in his first summer in Test cricket last year.

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At the World Cup in India he made three fifties but, like his team-mates, could not prevent England's spiral.

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