fifty

[fif-tee]

noun

plural

fifties 

1. a cardinal number, ten times five.

2. a symbol for this number, as 50 or L.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

4. fifties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 50 through 59, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature.

   She lives in the East Fifties. He's in his late fifties. It's going to be in the fifties again today.

5. Informal.,  a fifty-dollar bill.

   He had a fifty and two tens in his wallet.

adjective

1. amounting to 50 in number.

fifty

/ ˈfɪftɪ /

noun

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five

2. a numeral, 50, L, etc, representing this number

3. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 50 units

determiner

1. 1. amounting to fifty

      fifty people

   2. ( as pronoun )

      fifty should be sufficient

Word History and Origins

Origin of fifty¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English fīftig. See five, -ty ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of fifty¹

Old English fīftig

Example Sentences

King made 51 not out - her first international fifty - as the pair steered Australia away from danger and then struck a flurry of boundaries to take 59 runs from the last five overs.

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He has a respectable average of 35.68 in 14 Tests in Australia - he has nine fifties - but his high score is stuck in double digits at 89.

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She had 15 from her first 50 balls, and her 86-ball fifty was the second slowest of her England career.

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A group of around fifty people sat on the grass outside ACC Liverpool holding handwritten placards reading "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action".

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The Czech Republic's elk population is believed to be around fifty animals, far fewer than Emil's presumed homeland of Poland, which has tens of thousands.

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