Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The cardinal number equal to 5 × 10.
- n. A decade or the numbers from 50 to 59: They began playing golf in their fifties. With the sunshine, the temperature reached the fifties.
- n. The decade from 50 to 59 in a century.
- n. A fifty-dollar bill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
- n. A fifty-dollar bill.
- n. A fifty-pound note.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Five times ten.
- n. The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.
- n. A symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Five times ten; ten more than forty, or one more than forty-nine: a cardinal numeral.
- n. The sum of five tens, or of forty-nine and one.
- n. A symbol representing this number, as 50, L, or 1
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. being ten more than forty
- n. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
- n. a United States bill worth 50 dollars
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lord Durham wrote, over fifty [Errata: (from final page) for _fifty_ read _forty_.] years ago, of the French Canadians: 'They are a people without a history and a literature.'
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The difference between never becoming fixed, and becoming fixed once in fifty is definitely not random.
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I seemed to need to hear a word fifty times for it to register.
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Now that's what I call fifty quid an hour well spent.
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The Ceasefire Campaign on Monday said it was strongly opposed to what it called a fifty percent increase in defence spending over the next three years.
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He wrote under this title fifty-five papers, which were published twice a week between December, 1715, and June, 1716; and he was rewarded with the post of Commissioner for Trade and Colonies.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
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In other words, your record can now come out on a label fifty per cent owned by EMI, and still be magically 'independent'.
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No one wants to read, 'As you know, Kodos, our home planet is so civilized that we have not had a war in fifty trillion years,' said Kang.
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Everyone wonders what the face of hunting and fishing will look like in fifty years.
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If we want hunting to exist in fifty years we as hunters need to set our petty differences aside and unite as one.
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