fifty

CEFRA1

/ˈfɪfti/

number · numeral

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In plain English

  1. 01

    number

    The number 50.

  2. 02

    number

    Extra detail

    A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.

Examples

  • Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp.

  • One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
2
Citations
4

Deep Dive

number

Extra meaning

  1. A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.

numeral

Extra meaning

  1. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.

More examples

In context

  • The bank will cash your fifty dollar check.

  • Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?

  • It was just fifty children that Selene bore to Endymion. Are not the innumerable waves typified by the fifty Nereïds? And did not Priam have fifty sons and fifty daughters?

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Origin

number

PIE word *pénkʷe Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Germanic *fimf Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz Old English fīftiġ Middle English fifty English fifty From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”). By surface analysis, five + -ty.