fifty-seven

[fif-tee-sev-uhn]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 50 plus 7.

2. a symbol for this number, as 57 or LVII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 57 in number.

Example Sentences

One hundred fifty-seven deputies in the 250-seat parliament voted for the government.

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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.

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At least fifty-seven Republican state and local officials from twenty-seven states were at the Capitol on January 6.

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“These words insult and degrade the descendants of Freedmen much like the Jim Crow laws found lingering on the books in Southern state some fifty-seven years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.”

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This was drive-in democracy: Three hundred and fifty-seven state representatives sat in idling cars, tuning into a shared radio frequency.

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