fifty-eight
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 8.
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a symbol for this number, as 58 or LVIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The nearest village, Powick, had “one pub for every two hundred and fifty-eight adult inhabitants.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Two hundred and fifty-eight people were safely evacuated, they added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
Department of Defense placed fifty-eight journalists in a media boot camp to prepare them to be embedded with military regiments in Iraq.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
To see Elaine May’s return to Broadway—in the same theatre where she performed “An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May,” fifty-eight years earlier—is to witness a slice of theatrical history.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 22, 2018
The Cowboys came right back, moving fifty-eight yards in a minute to tie the score, the touchdown coming on a seventeen- yard pass from quarterback Robert Hall to flanker Marcus Grant.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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