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FIFTY-EIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fifty-eight mean? 

FIFTY-EIGHT (adjective)
  The adjective FIFTY-EIGHT has 1 sense:

1. being eight more than fiftyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FIFTY-EIGHT (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Being eight more than fifty

Synonyms:

58; fifty-eight; lviii

Similar:

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


 Context examples 


A natural number greater than fifty-eight and less than sixty and the quantity that it denotes.

(Fifty Nine, NCI Thesaurus)



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