fifty-eighth
Americanadjective
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next after the fifty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 58.
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being one of 58 equal parts.
noun
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a fifty-eighth part, especially of one (1/58).
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the fifty-eighth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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It was the fifty-eighth anniversary of the operation, which ended in catastrophe; the annual commemoration has become a kind of Miami Passion play.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
Conway took the Brexit contingent up to the triplex, on the fifty-eighth floor.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2016
Outstanding birthday greeting received by Dr. Buchman was from Groupers in Hell, Norway, who cabled: "Hell's bells are ringing, our hearts are singing" in honor of "Frank's fifty-eighth."
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, since that venerable institution covered a city block, with entrances running up from the street level to the fifty-eighth floor, a small army would have been needed to make sure of spotting her.
From Legacy by Schmitz, James H.
His only daughter and only child, Lydia, the devoted wife of James Wright, had been called home, in her fifty-eighth year, and after nearly thirty years of labour at the orphan houses.
From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)
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