fifty
Syllables: fif·tyUK/ˈfɪfti/
fifty numeral: the cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
Numeral
fifty
- 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
- 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
Noun
fifty (plural fifties)
- A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.
- Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?
- ‘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
- A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.
fifty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fifty in Hindi
- cardinal number
- पचास pacās, पंजाह pañjāh
fifty in Tamil
- ஐம்பது
fifty in Marathi
- cardinal number
- पन्नास pannās
- a banknote with a denomination of 50
- पन्नासची नोट pannāscī noṭ
fifty in Urdu
- cardinal number
- پچاس pacās
More languagesFewer languages
- fifty in Bengali
- পঞ্চাশ poncaś
- fifty in Telugu
- యాభై yābhai
- fifty in Malayalam
- അമ്പത് ampatŭ, അൻപത് aṉpatŭ
- fifty in Kannada
- ಐವತ್ತು
- fifty in Punjabi
- ਪੰਜਾਹ pañjāh
- fifty in Gujarati
- પચાસ pacās
- fifty in Odia
- ପଚାଶ pacāśa
- fifty in Sanskrit
- पञ्चाशत् pañcāśat
- fifty in Sinhala
- පනහ panaha
- fifty in Assamese
- পঞ্চাছ poñsas
- fifty in Nepali
- पचास pacās
- fifty in Pashto
- پنځوس pënźos
- fifty in Tagalog
- limampu
- fifty in Arabic
- خَمْسِينَ ḵamsīna, خَمْسُونَ ḵamsūna
- fifty in Malay
- lima puluh
- fifty in Indonesian
- lima puluh
- fifty in Persian
- پنجاه panjâh
- fifty in Thai
- ห้าสิบ hâa-sìp
- fifty in Vietnamese
- năm mươi
- fifty in Myanmar
- ငါးဆယ် nga:hcai
- Dhivehi
- ފަންސާސް fan̊sās
- Dzongkha
- ལྔ་བཅུ lnga bcu
Examples of fifty in a sentence
- We were cruising along at well over the speed limit of fifty miles per hour.
- Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.
- Gilbert had some bad luck yesterday — he got pick-pocketed and lost fifty dollars.
Synonyms of fifty
Forms of fifty
| Numeral | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | fiftie |
| alternative form (slang) | fitty |
| alternative form (slang) | fiddy |
| Noun | |
| plural | fifties |
Origin of fifty
PIE word *pénkʷe Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Germanic *fimf Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥-t(-s) Proto-Germanic *tegun(dz) 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.
Words formed from fifty
Phrases with fifty
- fifty one
- fifty six
- fifty two
- fifty five
- fifty four
- fifty nine
- fifty eight
- fifty seven
- fifty three
- fifty cent army
- fifty-one fifty
- kept it a buck fifty
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Words that rhyme with fifty
Questions about fifty
- What does fifty mean?
- Fifty means the cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
- What is fifty in Hindi?
- Fifty in Hindi is पचास (pacās), पंजाह (pañjāh). See Fifty meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fifty?
- Fifty can be a numeral or a noun.
- How do you pronounce fifty?
- Fifty is pronounced /ˈfɪfti/ (UK).
Words near fifty in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fifty (page history and authors); fifty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fifty (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ପଚାଶ (Odia) (page history and authors); পঞ্চাছ (Assamese) (page history and authors); पचास (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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