fifty-seventh

[ fif-tee-sev-uh nth ]

/ ˈfɪf tiˈsɛv ənθ /

next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.

being one of 57 equal parts.

a fifty-seventh part, especially of one (1/57).

the fifty-seventh member of a series.

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

anchorite

He died February 8, 1617, in the fifty-seventh year of his age.
Historical Description of Westminster Abbey|Anonymous
The driver turned into Fifty-seventh Street, and the sun jumped above the housetops.
Mortmain|Arthur Cheny Train
He was passing Fifty-seventh Street; he recognized the neighborhood he traversed so often in visiting Ruby.
The "Genius"|Theodore Dreiser
A certain prophetess called Pasithea had informed the Queen that the King could not survive his fifty-seventh year.
The Life of John of Barneveld, 1609-15, Volume I.|John Lothrop Motley

He died in the exercise of a most serene and humble faith, on the 30th of April, 1809, in the fifty-seventh year of his age.
The History of Dartmouth College|Baxter Perry Smith