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
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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
Mark Colville, fifty-eight, has raised six children with his wife, Luz Catarineau, at the Amistad Catholic Worker house, in New Haven, founded in 1994.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2019
“I tell you what. If you want these books, I’ll sell them to you for just what I paid for them at the auction: one hundred and fifty-eight pounds and ten shillings.”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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