Fifty Meaning
/ˈfɪfti/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
numThe cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
nounA banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.
Sentence Examples
One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.
The bank will cash your fifty dollar check.
Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She turned ____ years old last week, celebrating with family and close friends.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
More than ____ people attended the workshop to learn about the new software updates for the company.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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?"
— 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “II. The Suppliant Maidens”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 51:
"Searching again, he noticed something that had eluded him before: a single flower, a gentian, blooming not fifty feet in front of them, where, by all rights, there ought to be solid rock."
— 2008, Christopher Paolini, “Assault on Helgrind”, in Brisingr, page 39:
"Accounts with between fifty thousand and two hundred thousand followers are considered “microinfluencers,” and tend to have higher engagement rates—that is, a larger share of their followers like, favorite, or comment on their posts—than those with millions of followers."
— 2017 April 17, Rachel Monroe, “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2017:
"‘If you shoot him I’ll give you fifty pounds.’
‘All right!’ The driver laughed. ‘I’ll do my best to earn that fifty!’"
— 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She turned ____ years old last week, celebrating with family and close friends.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
More than ____ people attended the workshop to learn about the new software updates for the company.