fifty-second

[fif-tee-sek-uhnd]

adjective

1. next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.

2. being one of 52 equal parts.

noun

1. a fifty-second part, especially of one (1/52).

2. the fifty-second member of a series.

Example Sentences

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