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fif·ty  (fft)
n.
1. The cardinal number equal to 5 × 10.
2. fifties
a. A decade or the numbers from 50 to 59: They began playing golf in their fifties. With the sunshine, the temperature reached the fifties.
b. often Fifties The decade from 50 to 59 in a century.
3. A fifty-dollar bill.

[Middle English fifti, from Old English fftig; see penkwe in Indo-European roots.]

fifty adj. & pron.

fifty
Noun
pl -ties
1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
2. a numeral, 50 or L, representing this number
3. something representing or consisting of 50 units
Adjective
amounting to fifty: fifty bodies
fiftieth adjn
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.fiftyfifty - the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
50, L
large integer - an integer equal to or greater than ten
2.fiftyfifty - a United States bill worth 50 dollars
bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, bill, note - a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"
Adj.1.fiftyfifty - being ten more than forty
50, l
cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"
Translations
Spanish fifty [ˈfɪftɪ] numcincuenta;
the fifties → los años cincuenta;
to be in one's fifties → andar por los cincuenta

French fifty [ˈfɪftɪ] numcinquante
German fifty [ˈfɪftɪ] numfünfzig
Italian fifty [ˈfɪftɪ] numcinquanta

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It was doing for the forty or fifty Bell Companies what Von Moltke did for the German army prior to the Franco-Prussian War.
With one of the clamps of my bedstead; and this very tool has sufficed me to hollow out the road by which I came hither, a distance of about fifty feet.
The horizontal diameter was fifty feet, and the vertical diameter seventy-five feet.
 
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