fifty-one

[ fif-tee-wuhn ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 50 plus 1.
2. a symbol for this number, as 51 or LI.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 51 in number.

Example Sentences

From late 1921 and for the next eight years, a “new building went up in New York City every fifty-one minutes, on average.”

From The Daily Beast

Even now, at fifty-one, Herschel Walker is one of the most impressive athletes in the world.

From The Daily Beast

The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

From Project Gutenberg

This was in 1616, when the colony numbered only three hundred and fifty-one persons.

From Project Gutenberg

Eighteen hundred and fifty-one was a period of anxiety to the Midland and to railway companies generally.

From Project Gutenberg

Great alterations were said to have been made in schedule A: fifty-one boroughs out of fifty-six remained as before.

From Project Gutenberg

These resolutions, however, were rejected by a majority of fifty-one against eighteen.

From Project Gutenberg