fifty

noun

fif·ty | \ ˈfif-tē

plural fifties

Definition of fifty

1 : a number equal to five times 10 — see Table of Numbers

2 fifties plural : the numbers 50 to 59 specifically : the years 50 to 59 in a lifetime or century

3 : a 50-dollar bill

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Other Words from fifty

fiftieth \ ˈfif-tē-əth

\ adjective or noun

fifty adjective

fifty pronoun, plural in construction

fiftyish \ ˈfif-tē-ish

\ adjective

Examples of fifty in a Sentence

She is in her fifties. The bill for dinner came to $43, and she gave him a fifty.

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The conceit derived from a joke bylaw that actually got passed in southern France, at the time of the U.F.O. scares of the fifties, forbidding any alien to land in a vineyard. — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, "A Vintner’s Quest to Create a Truly American Wine," 14 May 2018 An Italian shoemaker in Bulgaria has sent boxes of fifties-era shoes for aging, but one gleaming pair on the counter stands out. — Jason Horowitz, Vogue, "Meet the Adorable Italian Stars in HBO’s Elena Ferrante Adaptation, My Brilliant Friend," 14 Aug. 2018 By the fifties, her writing had fallen out of favor, and when the sales stopped so did the fellowships, grants, and stipends that had supported her early work. — Casey N. Cep, The New Yorker, "Zora Neale Hurston’s Story of a Former Slave Finally Comes to Print," 7 May 2018 Sinatra’s great albums of the mid-fifties were heavy with theatre songs. — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, "Did Andrew Lloyd Webber Ruin the Musical or Rescue It?," 20 Feb. 2017 Zammar, who is his mid-fifties, was apprehended in northern Syria and was being interrogated, a senior Kurdish commander told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday. — Fox News, "Suspected 9/11 recruiter for Al Qaeda captured in Syria, Pentagon says," 19 Apr. 2018 Each of them had their first heart attack in their late fifties. — Caroline Manzo, Woman's Day, "Caroline's Blog: Why I'm Staying Heart-Healthy For Life," 5 Feb. 2015 The next person to enter was a man in his fifties with thick glasses, one of the holdouts from the neighboring housing project. — Ben Austen, The New Republic, "How one American city chose to tackle crime, combat racism, and reckon with the legacy of police brutality," 21 June 2018 Johann Gevers is a very tall, slender, charismatic man in his early fifties, with a high forehead, short orange hair whitening at the temples, and cloudy gray-blue eyes. — Gideon Lewis-kraus, WIRED, "The Blockchain: A Love Story—And a Horror Story," 18 June 2018

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