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fifty-one

fifty-one

279 1.0
The number that comes after fifty and before fifty-two
  • numeral
  • /ˈfɪfti wʌn/
: cincuenta y uno
  • 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

Examples

  • 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)

How Many

fifty-three
239 1.0
fifty-two
306 1.0
fifty-one
279 1.0
fifty
827 1.0
forty-nine
19 1.0

Surface Forms

fifty-one cardinal word
51 cardinal digit
fifty one cardinal word

Morphology

fifty-one = fifty + one (transparent) = fifty + one

A regular numeral compound formed by combining 'fifty' and 'one' to denote 50+1; readily understood by learners familiar with numbers.

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'.