fifty-sixth
[fif-tee-siksth]
- next after the fifty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 56.
- being one of 56 equal parts.
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- a fifty-sixth part, especially of one (1/56).
- the fifty-sixth member of a series.
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Beethoven died 26th March, 1827, in the fifty-sixth year of his age.
Sketch of Handel and BeethovenThomas Hanly Ball
She will die suddenly by an accident in her fifty-sixth year.
The Influence of the StarsRosa Baughan
He was in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and the thirty-eighth of his reign.
A Child's History of EnglandCharles Dickens
Charles was, at this time, in the fifty-sixth year of his age.
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain.William H. Prescott
Gaspard de Coligny was in his fifty-sixth year at the time of his death.
History of the Rise of the HuguenotsHenry Baird