fifty-second
Americanadjective
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next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
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being one of 52 equal parts.
noun
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a fifty-second part, especially of one (1/52).
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the fifty-second member of a series.
Example Sentences
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The first night Dasch was away in Washington, Burger and Quirin shimmied and grooved at a roaring jazz club on New York's famous Fifty-Second Street.
From Literature
“Fifty-second Street was on fire,” he said.
From New York Times
“I sit in one of the dives/On Fifty-second Street/Uncertain and afraid/ As the clever hopes expire.”
From Seattle Times
Confident of his case and sure that he had friends in Rome, after a bout of ill health in 1615, Galileo, now approaching his fifty-second birthday, obtained permission to visit Rome at the end of the year in order to clear the air.
From Literature
When I last caught up with Jane Klain, the tireless research manager at the Paley Center for Media, on West Fifty-second Street, she had unearthed a long-lost television version of “The Glass Menagerie,” which had aired in 1966 and then vanished for half a century.
From The New Yorker
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