fiftieth
Americanadjective
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next after the forty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 50.
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being one of 50 equal parts.
noun
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fiftieths
plural
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a fiftieth part, especially of one (1/50).
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the fiftieth member of a series.
adjective
noun
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one of 50 equal or approximately equal parts of something
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( as modifier )
a fiftieth part
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the fraction equal to one divided by 50 ( 1/ 50 )
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fiftieth
before 1000; Middle English fiftithe, Old English fīftigotha. See fifty, -th 2
Example Sentences
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A US congressional panel has released a redacted copy of an alleged "birthday book" given to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 celebrating his fiftieth birthday.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
It weighs less than one fiftieth of a gram; significantly less than current state-of-the-art pacemakers, which weigh at least five grams.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
My parents will be having their fiftieth wedding anniversary this year.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2023
McCartney, who first performed at Glastonbury in 2004, had been due to take part in the fiftieth anniversary edition of the festival in 2020 before it was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
From Reuters ● Jun. 25, 2022
In the nearly eight years that he lived in Hungary, he only managed to convince her to see him a few times—once when she attended his fiftieth birthday party in Bulgaria.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
One reason to feel glad to be nearly done with this round of fiftieths is that we will no longer be subjected, constantly, to generalizations about the baby-boom generation.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 18, 2019
In 1864, in a debate on a private member’s bill for extending the suffrage, he declared that the burden of proof lay on those “who would exclude forty-nine fiftieths of the working-classes from the franchise.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
For example: Suppose the diameter of the jaws to measure, when they are close together, 250⁄1000 of an inch, and that the bar be divided into inches and fiftieths.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Forty-nine fiftieths of the inhabitants of the kingdom, forty-nine fiftieths of the property of the kingdom, almost all the political, legal, and military ability and knowledge to be found in the kingdom, were Protestant.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
What ruined the agriculturists, who used to feed the remaining forty-nine fiftieths?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
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