fifty-one
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- /ˈfɪfti wʌn/
- After reviewing the numbers, we found that there were exactly fifty-one items in the inventory.
- fifty-one percent
- fifty-one years
- fifty-one years old
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The final illness and death of the fifty-one-year-old astronomer came in medical isolation.
Academic text (1999) -
Between three banks, I collected fifty-one dollars in cash.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Amazing Grace" now, page ah, fifty-one in the Army Hymn Book.
Fiction book (1992) -
The following day, in checking over them, he counted fifty-one, not the fifty-two ordered.
Academic text (1998) -
"Hamilton wrote and paid for fifty-one of them, and Madison did the same for twenty-six of them."
Academic text (1993) -
Adrian was fifty-one, and this woman could not be more than, say, twenty-five.
Fiction book (2000) -
15. Florida earmarked sixty percent of its budget for education in 1988; this decreased to fifty-one percent in 1993.
Academic text (2004) -
A pilot program was developed for fifty-one schools in the NYPL service areas of Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx.
Academic text (2014) -
Fifty-seven (52.78%) of the responding students were female; fifty-one (47.22%) were male.
Academic text (1995) -
On average, weekday visitors were staying only fifty-one minutes and weekenders only seventy-one minutes (Superintendent's monthly report 1960).
Academic text (1994)
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Etymology
The word fifty-one is made from the parts fifty, built from five and ten, and one, so it simply means 'five tens and one', that is 'one more than fifty'.