fifty-ninth
Americanadjective
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next after the fifty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 59.
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being one of 59 equal parts.
noun
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a fifty-ninth part, especially of one (1/59).
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the fifty-ninth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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The father, speaking Swahili, told Jake that their hotel was located on West Fifty-Ninth Street.
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On 15 November 1630, a few weeks short of his fifty-ninth birthday, Kepler died.
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At Fifty-Ninth Street, a mother wheeled in a stroller with twins emitting, it seemed to my ears, identically pitched screams.
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All street names had to be said in full, meaning no "Fifty-ninth and Lex," and definitely no "Mad Ave."
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This technology allows you, for instance, to superimpose directions over the road while you’re driving, receive data about an enemy’s whereabouts on a battlefield, and imagine how pink-flowered wallpaper would look in your powder room—or on a subway platform, if you’re into sprucing up the Fifty-ninth Street station.
From The New Yorker
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