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.”
Two hundred and fifty-eight people were safely evacuated, they added.
From Barron's
At lunch, the guys indulged me and looked at every single one of my fifty-eight pictures of Yuki.
From Literature
“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 Literature
Six thousand three hundred and fifty-eight miles away, Sudan suddenly felt closer to me than the ice cream shop around the corner.
From New York Times
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