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

Two hundred and fifty-one people were taken captive when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, killing about 1,200 people.

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At fifty-one, he had served in the Coast Guard for most of his working life, and he had been tracking the gangsters for years.

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According to her, “It’s my chance at redemption. To finish what your G’pop and I started fifty-one years ago.”

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Six hundred and fifty-one days of unrest and uncertainty dragged on as Mike Bohn awaited this September morning.

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This is sometimes called an “observation period” and colloquially referred to as: “Someone has been fifty-one fiftied.”

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