fifty-three
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 3.
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a symbol for this number, as 53 or LIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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“One hundred fifty-three, the tag is inside,” they called out in relief.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2022
Licurtis, who was fifty-three, had spent years building a house near the river’s edge, just steps from his mother’s.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
After graduating from law school, at the age of fifty-three, Owsley went to work for Harris, who was then the district attorney and her friend of a decade.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
Porter, who is fifty-three, is a so-called serial entrepreneur, who previously had sold a mobile-gaming company for nearly two hundred million dollars, and before that served as the first president of Teach for America.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 19, 2019
Jurisdiction over the city of Detroit and the surrounding fifty-three suburbs.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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