fifty-fifth
Americanadjective
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next after the fifty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 55.
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being one of 55 equal parts.
noun
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a fifty-fifth part, especially of one (1/55).
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the fifty-fifth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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The new budget comes as the city marked its fifty-fifth murder of the year Monday with the fatal shooting of a man in the North Beacon Hill neighborhood.
From Fox News
In fact, according to the historian David Armitage, Vietnam was something like the fifty-fifth country to do so.
From The New Yorker
In August, 2016, on the occasion of Obama’s fifty-fifth birthday, Biden tweeted out an image of friendship bracelets featuring the two men’s first names, writing, of Obama, “A brother to me, a best friend forever.”
From The New Yorker
“This is my fifty-fifth year in the business, and he is all but fearless.”
From The New Yorker
Waves were rippling through the crowd long before the fifty-fifth minute, when Skënderbeu, breaking forward, added a second.
From The New Yorker
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