fifty-seventh
Americanadjective
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next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
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being one of 57 equal parts.
noun
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a fifty-seventh part, especially of one (1/57).
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the fifty-seventh member of a series.
Example Sentences
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Bright and early on a recent Saturday, Charles Ray, the Los Angeles sculptor, stepped out of the Four Seasons Hotel, and walked west on Fifty-seventh Street.
From The New Yorker
Leech looked downtown, toward needle-shaped skyscrapers on Fifty-seventh Street—pieds-à-terre for oligarchs.
From The New Yorker
Her first New York show was in 1983, at the McKee Gallery, on Fifty-seventh Street.
From The New Yorker
She is often photographed staring straight ahead, and when we met for lunch on Fifty-seventh Street, on Monday, I swear she maintained eye contact for forty-five minutes straight.
From The New Yorker
All three hundred and sixty-five days’ worth of his 2017 “zips,” as he calls them, are on view at the fifty-seventh edition of the Carnegie International, in Pittsburgh, through March 25th.
From The New Yorker
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