fifty-seven
- numeral
- /ˈfɪfti ˈsɛvən/
- After counting the votes, the results showed a fifty-seven to forty-two margin in favor of the proposal.
- fifty-seven percent
- fifty-seven years
- fifty-seven years old
Examples
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Attitude in school is rated the lowest at fifty-seven percent reporting a positive impact.
Academic text (2011) -
Despite his fifty-seven years, he has the challenging voice and arrogant black eyes of his youth.
Fiction book (1999) -
The wonder was that he had made it to the age of fifty-seven.
Fiction book (1991) -
A total of three hundred and fifty-seven students participated in this study.
Academic text (2000) -
The subjects for this study consisted of fifty-seven education majors.
Academic text (1993) -
In order to answer this question, I contacted fifty-seven lawyers to ask them which interpretive rule they generally preferred.
Academic text (2017) -
Three hundred and fifty-seven eighth and ninth-grade students participated in the study.
Academic text (2000) -
We have fifty-seven of these in our sector right now; fifty-seven pacing programs.
Academic text (1995) -
Only two other Japanese have received a Nobel Prize in Physics, compared to fifty-seven Americans and nineteen Germans.
Academic text (1995) -
The temperature climbed to fifty-seven degrees, making it a perfect day for a picnic.
Synonyms
A Roman numeral that means 57
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Etymology
Fifty-seven simply joins fifty ('five tens') and seven ('7') to mean 'fifty plus seven', so it names the number that is seven more than fifty.