FIFTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fifty mean? 

• FIFTY (noun)
  The noun FIFTY has 2 senses:

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five

2. a United States bill worth 50 dollars

  Familiarity information: FIFTY used as a noun is rare.

• FIFTY (adjective)
  The adjective FIFTY has 1 sense:

1. being ten more than forty

  Familiarity information: FIFTY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIFTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the product of ten and five

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

50; fifty; L

Hypernyms ("fifty" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

Derivation:

fifty (being ten more than forty)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A United States bill worth 50 dollars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

fifty; fifty dollar bill

Hypernyms ("fifty" is a kind of...):

bank bill; bank note; banker's bill; banknote; bill; Federal Reserve note; government note; greenback; note (a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank))

• FIFTY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being ten more than forty

Synonyms:

50; fifty; l

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

Derivation:

fifty (the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five)

 Context examples 

On the first day's run he was known to cover as high as a hundred and fifty miles, and after that he would average a hundred miles a day until caught.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In which case we were another hundred and fifty miles to the bad.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

‘How would fifty guineas for a night’s work suit you?’ he asked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was simply what the porter described as a “medium-looking chap,” a man of fifty, beard grizzled, pale face, quietly dressed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fifty pounds was quite enough, I thought.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were only twenty-nine left out of the fifty!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Well! That put it in my head to enter myself as a law student; and that ran away with all that was left of the fifty pounds.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Because of the two prior convictions against him, Judge Scott imposed upon him a sentence of fifty years.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Buck swung to the right, ending the movement in a plunge that took up the slack and with a sudden jerk arrested his one hundred and fifty pounds.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"Easy money, eh?" Then he added proudly: "I wrote it in two days. That's fifty dollars a day."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)