Definitions for fifty
ˈfɪf tififty

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fifty, 50, Lnoun

   the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five

2. fifty dollar bill, fiftyadjective

   a United States bill worth 50 dollars

3. fifty, 50, ladjective

   being ten more than forty

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fiftynoun

   A fifty-dollar bill.

   Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?

2. fiftynoun

   A fifty-pound note.

3. fiftynumeral

   The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Fiftyadjective

   five times ten; as, fifty men

2. Fiftynoun

   the sum of five tens; fifty units or objects

3. Fiftynoun

   a symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l

4. Etymology: [AS. fftig; akin to OHG. finfzug, fimfzuc, G. fnfzig, funfzig, Goth. fimftigjus. See Five, and Ten, and cf. Fifteen.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Fifty

   fif′ti, adj. and n. five tens or five times ten.—adj. Fif′tieth, the ordinal of fifty.—n. a fiftieth part. [A.S. fíftig—fíf, five, tig, ten.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fifty' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3018

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fifty' in Written Corpus Frequency: #222

How to pronounce fifty?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Zira

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How to say fifty in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fifty in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fifty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of fifty in a Sentence

1. H. L. Mencken:

   The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

2. President Trump:

   We've done well, and I guess the market thinks we've done well, because we hit the biggest stock market increase without one day — we're talking four days instead of five — that we've had in 50 years, fifty years. Think of that. More than 50 years, actually.

3. Bill Cosby:

   Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

4. Charles Krauthammer:

   The Republicans have experienced the biggest ideological earthquake of a major party in our lifetime. Fifty, 60 years of conservatism has now yielded to a leader who is not a conservative, but who is a populist. That’s a big deal. And I think what the Ryan statement is… if the party is now going to be split between the leader, the populist, and the old-line conservatives… he wants to establish a center of power and a kind of home for the conservative wing.

5. Stephen Leacock:

   What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

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