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fifty-nine

/fif-tee-nahyn/US // ˈfɪf tiˈnaɪn //

五十九,第五十九次,第五十九,五十九个

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, 50 plus 9.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 59 or LIX.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 59 in number.

Examples

  • This was nine fewer than what he needed just two years ago when 426 members of the House voted.

  • The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.

  • Denied parole nine straight times, he insists he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.

  • If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.

  • Nine new Republican senators will swear their oaths of office.

  • 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.

  • In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.

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