fifty
1.0
Having the value of ten more than forty
- adjective
- /ˈfɪfti/
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cincuenta
- There are exactly fifty students in the class this semester.
It's trivial for a fifty person start up.
- It's trivial for a fifty person start up.
Examples
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The old man celebrated his fifty years of life with a big party.
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She received a fifty dollar bill as a birthday gift.
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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-first state
- Informal
8.0
A joking name for a place like Puerto Rico or Canada that people think may become a US state
How Many
Surface Forms
fifty positive
Morphology
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'.