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fifty-one
[ fif-tee-wuhn ]
noun
- a cardinal number, 50 plus 1.
- a symbol for this number, as 51 or LI.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
- 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.”
Even now, at fifty-one, Herschel Walker is one of the most impressive athletes in the world.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
This was in 1616, when the colony numbered only three hundred and fifty-one persons.
Eighteen hundred and fifty-one was a period of anxiety to the Midland and to railway companies generally.
Great alterations were said to have been made in schedule A: fifty-one boroughs out of fifty-six remained as before.
These resolutions, however, were rejected by a majority of fifty-one against eighteen.
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