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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We celebrated my fifty-first birthday with a little party in the de Vrieses’ alcove home.
From Literature
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
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