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fifty

fifty

876 1.0
The number that is ten more than forty
  • numeral
  • /ˈfɪfti/
translation icon : cincuenta
  • We are expecting fifty guests at the party this weekend.
  • fifty years
  • fifty percent
  • fifty-five

We're taking a group of fifty of our closest.

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Examples

  • And the Japanese love zoos? There are fifty zoos in Japan, and more being built.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • So let's imagine that we did fifty such tests.

  • or a bit more than fifty U.S. dollars? Really.

  • And yeah, we were able to get about only fifty of these into the US.

  • You could put this in, you could put fifty of these in some hotel, you know, conference room.

  • So it was fifty of these for one of these.

  • We're taking a group of fifty of our closest.

  • They said one or two maybe, but the other fifty were yours.

  • And Paul Terrell, the then owner of the bike shop said he would like to take fifty of these computers.

  • From 1924 to 1955, she published more than fifty articles mainly on topics relating to Mexico.

    Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

50
vsfifty
1.0

A number equal to half of one hundred

is written as a word instead of digits

Compounds

23 1.0

One half of something equal to 50 out of 100 parts

14 3.0

An equal share or chance between two people

A number equal to 150

A piece of paper money worth fifty dollars in the United States

1 1.8

A coin from the United States worth fifty cents, equal to half a dollar

fifty-cent tour
  • Informal
5.5

A short, cheap guided visit that shows the main places

8.0

A joking name for a place like Puerto Rico or Canada that people think may become a US state

middle fifty
  • Specialized
8.0

The range covering the middle half of a set of numbers

A person or thing in position one hundred and fifty-five in a list

A number equal to 155

How Many

hundred
1.0
seventy
264 1.0
fifty
876 1.0
ten
311 1.0
one
1.0
zero
1.0

Surface Forms

fifty cardinal word
50 cardinal digit

Morphology

fifty = five (transparent) = five + ty

Clear derivation from 'five' + '-ty' meaning the tens value; standard numeric suffixation.

Etymology

Fifty comes from an old English way of saying 'five tens'. The start of the word is five and the ending shows 'ten', so fifty is five times ten, which is why it means the number 50.