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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FIF'TY, a.
Five tens; five times ten; as fifty men. It may be used as a noun in the plural.
And they sat down by fifties. Mark 6.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being ten more than forty [syn: fifty, 50, l] n
1: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five [syn: fifty, 50, L]
2: a United States bill worth 50 dollars [syn: fifty dollar bill, fifty]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural fifties) Etymology: Middle English, from fifty, adjective, from Old English f?ftig, from f?ftig, noun, group of 50, from f?f five + -tig group of ten; akin to t?en ten Date: before 12th century 1. — see number table 2. plural the numbers 50 to 59; specifically the years 50 to 59 in a lifetime or century 3. a 50-dollar bill • fiftieth adjective or noun • fifty adjective • fifty pronoun, plural in construction • fiftyish adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 the product of five and ten. 2 a symbol for this (50, l, L). 3 (in pl.) the numbers from 50 to 59, esp. the years of a century or of a person's life. 4 a set of fifty persons or things. 5 a large indefinite number (have fifty things to tell you). --adj. that amount to fifty. Phrases and idioms: fifty-fifty adj. equal, with equal shares or chances (on a fifty-fifty basis). --adv. equally, half and half (go fifty-fifty). fifty-first, -second , etc. the ordinal numbers between fiftieth and sixtieth. fifty-one, -two , etc. the cardinal numbers between fifty and sixty. Derivatives: fiftieth adj. & n. fiftyfold adj. & adv. Etymology: OE fiftig (as FIVE, -TY(2))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fifty Fif"ty, a. [AS. f[=i]ftig; akin to OHG. finfzug, fimfzuc, G. f["u]nfzig, funfzig, Goth. fimftigjus. See Five, and Ten, and cf. Fifteen.] Five times ten; as, fifty men.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fifty Fif"ty, n.; pl. Fifties. 1. The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects. 2. A symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(fifties) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Fifty is the number 50. NUM 2. When you talk about the fifties, you are referring to numbers between 50 and 59. For example, if you are in your fifties, you are aged between 50 and 59. If the temperature is in the fifties, the temperature is between 50 and 59 degrees. I probably look as if I'm in my fifties rather than my seventies. N-PLURAL 3. The fifties is the decade between 1950 and 1959. He began performing in the early fifties. N-PLURAL: the N