fifty-first

American  

[fif-tee-furst] / ˈfɪf tiˈfɜrst /

adjective

1. next after the fiftieth; being the ordinal number for 51.

2. being one of 51 equal parts.

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noun

1. a fifty-first part, especially of one (1/51).

2. the fifty-first member of a series.

Example Sentences

I’ll never forget when I turned to the rear cover of the magazine’s fifty-first issue: There, I saw four photographs showing a new house under construction in the Hamptons region of Long Island, in the middle of winter.

From Seattle Times

Robert Redford is the President; Vietnam is the fifty-first state.

From The New Yorker

“In order for the district to become the fifty-first state, Congress needs to pass and the states need to ratify an amendment to the Constitution,” Jordan said.

From Fox News

The shooting, the two hundred and fifty-first mass shooting in the United States this year, took place within hours of an even deadlier mass shooting, in El Paso, Texas.

From The New Yorker

Every year on the anniversary of R.F.K.’s assassination—this Thursday is the fifty-first—Shea wrote a column about Bobby Kennedy, and he had devoted the 2011 edition to her.

From The New Yorker