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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This house is fifty five paces long, and hath three pawnes or covered walks in it, the roof being supported by forty great gilded pillars, which stand between the walks.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Kerr, Robert
Does he think it so pleasant to hear his increasing tally—forty, five, fifty, five, sixty, five?
From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William
The story is a very good story, and impressed them," he went on, counting out the bills as he spoke, "to the extent of fifty five dollars.
From Van Bibber and Others by Davis, Richard Harding
A body falling from the summit of a steeple a hundred and fifty feet high, dashes against the pavement with a velocity of fifty five miles an hour.
From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward
Upon this encouragement he soon increas’d his company to a hundred and fifty five men.
From Pirates by Fraser, Claud Lovat
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