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fifty-second

[ fif-tee-sek-uhnd ]

adjective

  1. next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
  2. being one of 52 equal parts.


noun

  1. a fifty-second part, especially of one (1/52).
  2. the fifty-second member of a series.

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Example Sentences

She had been beautiful, and was beautiful still, though now in her fifty-second year.

Vespucci explored the country as far south as the fifty-second degree of latitude, but formed no settlement.

She died in 1708, in her fifty-second year; and on her husband's death four years later the peerage became extinct.

In the fifty-second month, the World War, involving nearly every civilized nation on the globe, was brought to a close.

There is no doubt of its being an interpolation—that the twelfth verse, I think it is, ought to join on to the fifty-second.

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