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5️⃣ The number 50 💵 A $50 bill 🔢 Equal to 50
fifty

fifty

2 1.0
Having the value of ten more than forty
  • adjective
  • /ˈfɪfti/
: cincuenta
  • There are exactly fifty students in the class this semester.

It's trivial for a fifty person start up.

Examples

  • The old man celebrated his fifty years of life with a big party.

  • She received a fifty dollar bill as a birthday gift.

  • You just start really committing like a parent to time with those fifty, that tactic time allocation to make them feel safe.

Synonyms

50
vsfifty
∞ 1.0

A number equal to half of one hundred

is the word form expressing the same exact quantity

Compounds

fifty percent
227 1.0

One half of something equal to 50 out of 100 parts

fifty-fifty
88 3.0

An equal share or chance between two people

one hundred fifty
  • US
17 1.0

A number equal to 150

fifty-cent piece
  • US
2 1.8

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

fifty dollar bill
  • US
2 1.0

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

one hundred fifty-five
  • US
1 1.0

A number equal to 155

middle fifty
  • Specialized
1 8.0

The range covering the middle half of a set of numbers

fifty-first state
  • Informal
1 8.0

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

fifty-cent tour
  • Informal
1 5.5

A short, cheap guided visit that shows the main places

hundred-and-fifty-fifth
1.9

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

How Many

one hundred
264 1.0
fifty
2 1.0
forty-five
902 1.0
forty
∞ 1.0
twenty
∞ 1.0
ten
334 1.0
zero
465 1.0

Surface Forms

fifty positive

Morphology

fifty = five (transparent) = five + ty

Standard adjectival/numeric formation from 'five' with '-ty'; meaning 'equal to 50' is directly derived.

Etymology

Fifty as an adjective comes from the old idea of 'five tens'. Its parts include five and the part for 'ten', so fifty means 'equal to 50' or 'being ten more than forty'.