Definitions for fifty

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fifty fif·ty

Spelling: [fif-tee]

IPA: /ˈfɪf ti/

Fifty is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in fifty (ffity).

Definitions for fifty

noun

1. a cardinal number, ten times five.
2. a symbol for this number, as 50 or L.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. fifties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 50 through 59, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature:
5. Informal. a fifty-dollar bill:

adjective

1. amounting to 50 in number.

Origin of fifty

before 900; Middle English; Old English fīftig. See five, -ty¹

Examples for fifty

Executing your dreams at forty or fifty," Pragnell says, "is just a bit too late.

fifty years later, the Reagan consensus prevails, it seems to me, more so than Roosevelt consensus.

It was rather a heavy tug, for the fish he had caught weighed at least fifty pounds.

The losses in New York City alone were said to be fifty millions.

He'd heard these rumours about a slump, and he's fifty years old at that.

It had been all the same to Mrs. Bines for as many years as a woman of fifty can remember.

When you get the kind of discharge I had, they give you a suit and fifty dollars.

fifty years ago, we were just beginning to learn some important lessons from natural disasters, epidemics, and manmade tragedies.

I am told he comes of a father who died at fifty, and who did in many ways like that.

For more than fifty years, women have been talking about what it means to be a woman.