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fifty-sixth
[ fif-tee-siksth ]
adjective
- next after the fifty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 56.
- being one of 56 equal parts.
noun
- a fifty-sixth part, especially of one (1/56).
- the fifty-sixth member of a series.
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Example Sentences
He was looking downtown, his eyes squinting, trying to make out figures as far away as Fifty-sixth Street.
He has completely, in his fifty-sixth year, lost the position of leadership, of eminence that once he had.
An attack of gout in the head and stomach terminated his life in December, 1771, in the fifty-sixth year of his age.
On the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth days of the fast he remained in bed, the condition being much the same.
This little book is in its fifty-sixth year, and is one of the best of its kind published.
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