fifty
fifty Lexical Profile
fifty Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Amounting to five times ten in number; one more than forty-nine.
"The historic building has stood in the center of the town for over fifty years."
• noun
The cardinal number equivalent to the product of five and ten; one more than forty-nine, or the symbols (50, L) representing it.
"She counted to fifty before turning around to look for the hidden children."
The numbers from fifty to fifty-nine, especially referring to the years of a century or the years of a person's life (used in the plural).
"Rock and roll music gained immense popularity among teenagers during the fifties."
A banknote or bill having a monetary value of fifty units of a given currency, such as fifty dollars or fifty pounds.
"He paid for the groceries with a crisp new fifty and waited for his change."
• pronoun
Fifty people or things previously mentioned or easily identified from context.
"Over a hundred applicants were interviewed for the fellowship, and fifty were selected to advance."
• Rhymes for fifty
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English fiftig, a compound of fif ('five') and -tig ('group of ten'), derived from Proto-Germanic *fimftigiwiz.