fifty-five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 55 or LV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Within seven minutes, fifty-five thousand Maersk devices were locked.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Seven-hundred fifty-five yards are a lot of yards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025
The first complete Song census showed around fifty-five million people in the early eleventh century.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Sixty-three employees have submitted exemptions, fifty-five religious, eight medical.
From Fox News ● Oct. 25, 2021
At nine o’clock they went to bed and lay quietly, hand in hand, he fifty-five, she sixty, in the raining darkness.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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