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fifty

/fif-tee/US // ˈfɪf ti //UK // (ˈfɪftɪ) //

五十,五十岁,五十年代,五十岁的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fif·ties.

    • : a cardinal number, ten times five.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 50 or L.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
    • : fifties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 50 through 59, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature: She lives in the East Fifties. He's in his late fifties. It's going to be in the fifties again today.
    • : Informal. a fifty-dollar bill: He had a fifty and two tens in his wallet.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 50 in number.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.having 50 of something

Examples

  • Gävle Goat must be dreading the imminent holiday and his fifty-fifty chance of destruction.

  • For more than fifty years, women have been talking about what it means to be a woman.

  • Fifty years ago, we were just beginning to learn some important lessons from natural disasters, epidemics, and manmade tragedies.

  • Executing your dreams at forty or fifty," Pragnell says, "is just a bit too late.

  • When you get the kind of discharge I had, they give you a suit and fifty dollars.

  • The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

  • In particular the Governor of Adinskoy offered us a guard of fifty men to the next station, if we apprehended any danger.

  • Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.

  • Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.

  • It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.