fifty-seven
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 7.
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a symbol for this number, as 57 or LVII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Four hundred and fifty-seven British service personnel died in the conflict and many more suffered life changing injuries.
From BBC
That man was one of the fifty-seven people who died in the eruption.
From Literature
One hundred fifty-seven deputies in the 250-seat parliament voted for the government.
From Reuters
On March 23, they spied land to the west, probably one of the Danger Islands at the entrance to Erebus and Terror Gulf—a scant fifty-seven miles away.
From Literature
One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, at the tail end of the United States’ great civil conflict — and the geographical tail end of the Confederacy — Union Army Maj.
From Washington Post
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