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FIFTY-THREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fifty-three mean?
• FIFTY-THREE (adjective)
The adjective FIFTY-THREE has 1 sense:
1. being three more than fifty
Familiarity information: FIFTY-THREE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being three more than fifty
Synonyms:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples
On the contrary, said Holmes, out of my last fifty-three cases my name has only appeared in four, and the police have had all the credit in forty-nine.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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