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fiftie

fiftie is the obsolete spelling of fifty.

Meaning of fifty

Numeral

fifty

  1. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    50, L, fivety

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Questions about fiftie

What is fiftie the obsolete spelling of?
Fiftie is the obsolete spelling of fifty.

Words near fiftie in the dictionary

  1. fifthhand
  2. fifthing
  3. fifthly
  4. fifthness
  5. fifths
  6. fiftie
  7. fifties
  8. fiftieth
  9. fiftiethly
  10. fiftieths
  11. fifty

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