fifty-eighth
Americanadjective
-
next after the fifty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 58.
-
being one of 58 equal parts.
noun
-
a fifty-eighth part, especially of one (1/58).
-
the fifty-eighth member of a series.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
During a session at his Fifty-Eighth Street office, Abramson persuaded Olson that he should agree to be hospitalised as a voluntary patient at a Maryland sanatorium.
From The Guardian
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
He ran east on Fifty-eighth Street, toward the yards and fences that Petra knew could hide him.
From Literature
He trained as a tank commander, and then climbed the military hierarchy; he led the Fifty-eighth Army during the Second Chechen War.
From The New Yorker
Conway took the Brexit contingent up to the triplex, on the fifty-eighth floor.
From The New Yorker
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.