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
When the election came in 2016, the amendment went down to defeat, fifty-eight per cent to forty-two per cent.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 11, 2019
"From there"—he moved his hand to the finish line—"to there. Nine seconds and fifty-eight milliseconds. The boy is like lightning."
From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
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