fifty-five

[fif-tee-fahyv]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 50 plus 5.

2. a symbol for this number, as 55 or LV.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 55 in number.

Example Sentences

Marion was a small, idyllic town of about fifty-five hundred people set in the lush, tree-covered mountains of southwestern Virginia near the Hungry Mother State Park.

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For more than 450 years La Trinité, filled not only with immense treasure but also artifacts of a New World settlement fifty-five years before the Pilgrims, was the continual object of intense search.

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The agency, he said, has been using the “unconstitutional presumption” for “fifty-five years too many.”

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At the age of fifty-five, the war had taken a toll on his health.

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I counted the beats, a total of fifty-five, for thirty seconds.

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