plural fifties
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
fifty
adjective
fifty
pronoun, plural in construction
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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In the nineteen-fifties, television had been touted by the likes of the parenting luminary Benjamin Spock and the prominent psychoanalyst Erik Erikson as potentially beneficial to children, but by the late nineteen-sixties the bloom was off the rose.
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Jean Garnett, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
What Treacy’s channeled is a certain Anglo fifties chic—think Elizabeth David and Princess Margaret with just a teaspoon of Sputnik, which is to say postwar whimsy with strong classical roots.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
Compared to those with low vitamin D levels, participants with high vitamin D levels had less tau buildup in their fifties, including in regions of the brain where this protein tends to accumulate first in individuals who develop dementia, the study found.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Blazy cast wide — teens through to women in their fifties — and let the show breathe, with a runway circuit that took models the better part of five minutes.
—ABC News, 9 Mar. 2026
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Jean Garnett, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
What Treacy’s channeled is a certain Anglo fifties chic—think Elizabeth David and Princess Margaret with just a teaspoon of Sputnik, which is to say postwar whimsy with strong classical roots.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
Compared to those with low vitamin D levels, participants with high vitamin D levels had less tau buildup in their fifties, including in regions of the brain where this protein tends to accumulate first in individuals who develop dementia, the study found.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Blazy cast wide — teens through to women in their fifties — and let the show breathe, with a runway circuit that took models the better part of five minutes.
—ABC News, 9 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for fifty
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“Fifty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fifty. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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