fifty-eight
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 8.
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a symbol for this number, as 58 or LVIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The nearest village, Powick, had “one pub for every two hundred and fifty-eight adult inhabitants.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
Two hundred and fifty-eight people were safely evacuated, they added.
From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026
Department of Defense placed fifty-eight journalists in a media boot camp to prepare them to be embedded with military regiments in Iraq.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
Metallica has sold more than fifty-eight million albums since 1991, easily outpacing Whitney Houston, U2, Fleetwood Mac, and Eminem.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2018
I was on one hundred and fifty-eight when Mr. Cooper, the barber, stepped out of his shop, blocking my way.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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