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BNC: 1041 COCA: 3038

fifty

fifty /ˈfɪfti/ noun
plural fifties
fifty
/ˈfɪfti/
noun
plural fifties
Learner's definition of FIFTY
[count] : the number 50(数字)五十
fifties [plural]
: the numbers ranging from 50 to 59五十几
: a set of years ending in digits ranging from 50 to 59五十几;五十年代;五十多岁
[count] US : a fifty-dollar bill五十美元票面的纸币

— fiftieth

/ˈfɪftiəθ/ adjective

— fiftieth

noun, plural fiftieths [count]

— fifty

adjective

— fifty

pronoun

— fiftyish

/ˈfɪftijɪʃ/ adjective
BNC: 1041 COCA: 3038

fifty

noun

fif·​ty ˈfif-tē How to pronounce fifty (audio)
plural fifties
1
: a number equal to five times 10 see Table of Numbers
2
fifties plural : the numbers 50 to 59
specifically : the years 50 to 59 in a lifetime or century
3
: a 50-dollar bill
fiftieth adjective or noun
fifty adjective
fifty pronoun, plural in construction
fiftyish adjective

Example Sentences

She is in her fifties. The bill for dinner came to $43, and she gave him a fifty.
Recent Examples on the Web China had almost 49 gigawatts installed as of 2019 and should get into the mid-fifties this year. Bloomberg.com, 3 June 2020 Now, today’s middle-class workers in their forties and even fifties will likely get stuck with the huge tax increases. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2020 By week’s end, a man in his fifties would succumb to COVID-19 symptoms in Kirkland, a Seattle suburb. Brett Murphy, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2020 In February, the CDC sent the Army about 10 drops of blood from one of the first Covid-19 patients, a Washington state man in his fifties who was the epidemic’s first US death. Eric Niiler, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020 The organizers had hoped, in particular, for Kipchoge to run in ideal weather—temperature in the low fifties in Fahrenheit, with less than eighty per cent humidity. Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2019 The relative increases are four to five times higher than the increases in workforce gains in people in their thirties, forties, and fifties. Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2020 Some were influenced by Adelle Davis, Lelord Kordel, or other health food proponents of the fifties. Ellen Fort, Sunset Magazine, 9 Mar. 2020 But there’s no doubt about it that that over 60 — in some of the cases recently reported out of Washington state, people were in their fifties, but had additional medical conditions — have a very high spike in mortality rates. Matthew Herper, STAT, 6 Mar. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from fifty, adjective, from Old English fīftig, from fīftig, noun, group of 50, from fīf five + -tig group of ten; akin to tīen ten

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of fifty was before the 12th century
BNC: 1041 COCA: 3038

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