fifty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 54 or LIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The Constitution does not require the Speaker to be a member of the House, although to date, all fifty-four Speakers have been.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
Twice the difference of a number and ten is fifty-four.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
Labor economists refer to people aged twenty-five to fifty-four as “prime aged.”
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2019
Harris, who is fifty-four, has a billboard smile, and brown eyes that soften easily but just as readily turn skeptical.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
Then, in the fifty-four hours and two minutes of thinking time, another possibility occurred to me.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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