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fifty-seventh

[fif-tee-sev-uh nth]
adjective
  1. next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
  2. being one of 57 equal parts.
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noun
  1. a fifty-seventh part, especially of one (1/57).
  2. the fifty-seventh member of a series.
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Historical Examples of fifty-seventh

  • At Fifty-seventh Street I paused, before turning, to look about me and to listen.

    Against Odds

    Lawrence L. Lynch

  • He had written from an address on East Fifty-seventh Street.

    Jill the Reckless

    P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

  • Portions of the Fifty-seventh and Seventy-seventh Ohio still adhered.

    From Fort Henry to Corinth

    Manning Ferguson Force

  • The fifty-seventh vessel I boarded was the Melampus frigate.

  • About this time, and when in his fifty-seventh year, he married Mlle. Didot.

    Paul and Virginia

    Bernardin de Saint Pierre