fifty-seventh

American  

[fif-tee-sev-uhnth] / ˈfɪf tiˈsɛv ənθ /

adjective

1. next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.

2. being one of 57 equal parts.

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noun

1. a fifty-seventh part, especially of one (1/57).

2. the fifty-seventh member of a series.

Example Sentences

This year, Modisakeng is representing South Africa, along with the artist Candice Breitz, at the fifty-seventh edition of the Venice Biennale.

From The New Yorker • May 25, 2017

Their America is in many ways almost unrecognizable to our America, a nation that today will hold its fifty-seventh Presidential election.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 8, 2016

Red cedar doesn’t grow north of the fifty-seventh parallel, and Tuxecan was on the Arctic side of that boundary—logs usually had to be towed in, by canoe, from more southerly parts of the island.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015

Drahi, who is now ranked fifty-seventh, has pursued an aggressive strategy, agreeing to spend nearly $22 billion to acquire five businesses to add to his empire. 

From Forbes • Mar. 2, 2015

His "Messiah," which alone would have sufficed to immortalize him, was produced, in one of his herculean bursts of power, within twenty-three days, when he was well-advanced in his fifty-seventh year.

From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Moore, Aubertine Woodward