FIFTY-FIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fifty-five mean? 

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

1. being five more than fifty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIFTY-FIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being five more than fifty

Synonyms:

55; fifty-five; lv

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

PP14 derivative-treated HLA-matched donor mononuclear cell-enriched leukocytes contain at least fifty-five percent early-apoptotic T cells; after infusion and when processed by recipient dendritic cells, early-apoptotic T cells may help induce a decrease in the donor effector T-cell responses against the recipient of an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplant, thereby minimizing allogeneic HSC transplant-related graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).

(HLA-Matched Donor Mononuclear Cell-Enriched Leukocytes Apocell, NCI Thesaurus)

We had a pleasant little meal together, during which Holmes would talk about nothing but violins, narrating with great exultation how he had purchased his own Stradivarius, which was worth at least five hundred guineas, at a Jew broker’s in Tottenham Court Road for fifty-five shillings.

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