fifty-first
Americanadjective
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next after the fiftieth; being the ordinal number for 51.
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being one of 51 equal parts.
noun
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a fifty-first part, especially of one (1/51).
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the fifty-first member of a series.
Example Sentences
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Robert Redford is the President; Vietnam is the fifty-first state.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
Whatever the slim prospects of another deal—to avoid a more ominous confrontation—there’s no sign yet of that fifty-first date.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin, in their campaign for Gracie Mansion, in 1969, ran on a platform of making New York City “the fifty-first state”; later on, Breslin recommended declaring New York an “international city.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 30, 2016
He proposed that New York become the fifty-first state and give its neighborhoods a degree of local autonomy undreamed of by even such a small-government advocate as Buckley.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
We celebrated my fifty-first birthday with a little party in the de Vrieses’ alcove home.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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