Definitions for fifties

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fifties fif·ty

Spelling: [fif-tee]

IPA: /ˈfɪf ti/

Fifties is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in fifties (effiist).

Definitions for fifties

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 fifties

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

Examples for fifties

An earthquake finally destroyed the town in the fifties, but it really started to die when the Christian population was deported.

Up to the Christmas of that year he had kept the appearance of a man in his fifties.

Throughout the fifties, in city after city, fluoridation became the subject of fierce debate.

I struck up a conversation with a man in his fifties or sixties who had a Brooklyn accent.

I 'll take you two to one in fifties that I act the host here this day twelvemonth.

She must now be somewhere in the fifties—let's see—fifty-three, I think.

You are swept off by dozens at a time there—by fifties in a cave.

PANKISI GORGE, Georgia—The mother of martyrs, a woman in her fifties, is delicately beautiful and visibly in pain.

“Oh, they are with us,” said the leader of the group, a man in his fifties, dressed in camouflage, wearing a peaked military cap.

In villages they can be counted by tens, in towns by fifties.