fiftieth
adjective
next after the forty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 50.
fiftieths
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pluralof fiftieth.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
This tube is very narrow and is divided into fiftieths of a cubic centimeter.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various
The thermometers are graduated from 0° to 12° C. or from 8° to 20° C. and each degree is divided into fiftieths.
From Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Francis Gano Benedict
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
