fifty

Plural

fifties

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.

   • Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?

2. 2.A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.

   • My father is fifty years old.

Num

Numeral

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A word that represents a number or quantity.

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

   • It was just fifty children that Selene bore to Endymion. Are not the innumerable waves typified by the fifty Nereïds? And did not Priam have fifty sons and fifty daughters?
   • Searching again, he noticed something that had eluded him before: a single flower, a gentian, blooming not fifty feet in front of them, where, by all rights, there ought to be solid rock.

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