fifty-five
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- numeral
- /ˈfɪfti faɪv/
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cincuenta y cinco
- Her accommodations were designed to carry fifty-five first-class passengers, eighty-five second-class, and 370 third-class.
- fifty-five percent
- fifty-five years
- fifty-five years old
Examples
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The overall travel industry in Vermont in 1990 generated fifty-five million dollars in tax revenues.
Academic text (1996) -
In the redesigned tests, the multiple-choice questions account for fifty-five percent of the grade.
Academic text (2004) -
There are more than a hundred scenes in the fifty-five minutes of running time.
Academic text (1999) -
In fact, this was the first time in her fifty-five years that she had traveled alone.
Fiction book (1993) -
"Are human rights observed in your country?" Fifty-five percent said no; 38 percent said yes.
Academic text (1995) -
Besides, the speed limit's only fifty-five when you're going through a town, and we're going through Conroe.
Fiction book (1996) -
In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, twenty-one of the fifty-five delegates were society members.
Academic text (1997) -
Fifty-one of New York's fifty-five state prison facilities are located upstate.
Academic text (2017) -
Forty-eight percent of participants were between the ages of thirty-six and fifty-five, and 61 percent were women.
Academic text (2004) -
He counted fifty-five colorful balloons for the party.
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Etymology
The word fifty-five is made of fifty and five, where fifty means 'five tens' and five means 'five'. So fifty-five is 'five tens plus five', which is why it means the number 55.