fifty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 54 or LIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The Constitution does not require the Speaker to be a member of the House, although to date, all fifty-four Speakers have been.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
Twice the difference of a number and ten is fifty-four.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
Labor economists refer to people aged twenty-five to fifty-four as “prime aged.”
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2019
Within an hour, fifty-four reports of their movements had circulated on Facebook.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2019
One hundred fifty-four thousand of us G.I.s and Marines were poised to hit the Hagushi beaches.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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