fifty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 54 or LIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The Constitution does not require the Speaker to be a member of the House, although to date, all fifty-four Speakers have been.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
“This was a very merchant city,” Woods, who is fifty-four, told me.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 29, 2020
Twice the difference of a number and ten is fifty-four.
From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020
Labor economists refer to people aged twenty-five to fifty-four as “prime aged.”
From Salon • Dec. 1, 2019
Census figures put the black population, among Levittown’s fifty-four thousand residents, at 2 percent.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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