FIFTY-FOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fifty-four mean? 

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

1. being four more than fifty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIFTY-FOUR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being four more than fifty

Synonyms:

54; fifty-four; liv

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

His majesty seldom keeps above six hundred horses in his stables: they are generally from fifty-four to sixty feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

At last we exposed that monstrous torso (fifty-four inches, by the tailor's tape).

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even at Friar’s Oak we had heard how, in the little Speedy, of fourteen small guns with fifty-four men, he had carried by boarding the Spanish frigate Gamo with her crew of three hundred.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is in length three glomglungs (which make about fifty-four English miles,) and two and a half in breadth; as I measured it myself in the royal map made by the king’s order, which was laid on the ground on purpose for me, and extended a hundred feet: I paced the diameter and circumference several times barefoot, and, computing by the scale, measured it pretty exactly.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)