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fifty-eight

American  
[fif-tee-eyt] / ˈfɪf tiˈeɪt /

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 50 plus 8.

  2. a symbol for this number, as 58 or LVIII.

  3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

  1. amounting to 58 in number.

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

But it is in soft drinks that we consume most of our fifty-eight pounds of high-fructose corn syrup.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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