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FIFTY-ONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fifty-one mean?
• FIFTY-ONE (adjective)
The adjective FIFTY-ONE has 1 sense:
1. being one more than fifty
Familiarity information: FIFTY-ONE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one more than fifty
Synonyms:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples
A natural number greater than forty-nine and less than fifty-one and the quantity that it denotes.
(Fifty, NCI Thesaurus)
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He instanced a snake, the cast skin of which, deep purple in color, was fifty-one feet in length, and mentioned a white creature, supposed to be mammalian, which gave forth well-marked phosphorescence in the darkness; also a large black moth, the bite of which was supposed by the Indians to be highly poisonous.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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