fifty-five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 55 or LV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Total, fifty five thousand bottles; profit clear of all expenses, twenty thousand dollars at the very lowest calculation.
From The Gilded Age, Part 1. by Warner, Charles Dudley
Does he think it so pleasant to hear his increasing tally—forty, five, fifty, five, sixty, five?
From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William
A body falling from the summit of a steeple a hundred and fifty feet high, dashes against the pavement with a velocity of fifty five miles an hour.
From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward
Through August they found all delightful, but when the ships went back in December, fifty five of the number returned to England, weary of their experience and fearful of the cold ....
From The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete by Ames, Azel
Mr. Hawker, to give him the name by which he was known in Scotland Yard circles, was a man of fifty, five feet nine in height, and rather stockily built.
From In Friendship's Guise by Graydon, William Murray
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