fifty-eight

[ fif-tee-eyt ]

/ ˈfɪf tiˈeɪt /

a cardinal number, 50 plus 8.

a symbol for this number, as 58 or LVIII.

a set of this many persons or things.

amounting to 58 in number.

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Fifty-eight children took part in a trial into polio and diptheria vaccines in December 1960.
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Corrections officers commit suicide at alarmingly high rates and their average life expectancy is fifty-eight years.
Detention Worker Stands Up for Prisoners’ Rights|Moral Courage|March 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Fifty-eight percent of us want to expand the fence on the Mexican border.
The Week in Polls|Adam Hanft|October 17, 2008|DAILY BEAST
These guns were seven feet four inches long in the bore, and weighed fifty-eight hundred-weight.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845|Various

Twenty-four men were killed, and one hundred and fifty-eight were wounded.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation|Charles Roger
I was lame in places I'd lived fifty-eight years and never knew I had.
Somewhere in Red Gap|Harry Leon Wilson
Fifty-eight years was his allotted pilgrimage—a pilgrimage of care and toil and sorrow.
The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power|John S. C. Abbott
In these letters Bettina is twenty-three to twenty-five years old, Goethe fifty-eight to sixty.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany|Georg Brandes