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fifty-second
[ fif-tee-sek-uhnd ]
adjective
- next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- being one of 52 equal parts.
noun
- a fifty-second part, especially of one (1/52).
- 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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