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fifty-ninth

[fif-tee-nahynth]

adjective

  1. next after the fifty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 59.

  2. being one of 59 equal parts.



noun

  1. a fifty-ninth part, especially of one (1/59).

  2. the fifty-ninth member of a series.

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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.

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