fifty

Meanings

1. 1
   num

   The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.

   Searching again, he noticed something that had eluded him before: a single flower, a gentian, blooming not fifty feet in front of them, where, by all rights, there ought to be solid rock.

2. 2
   noun

   A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.

   Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?

3. 3
   adj

   being ten more than forty

4. 4
   noun

   a United States bill worth 50 dollars

5. 5
   noun

   the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five

6. 6
   noun

   A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.

Etymology

PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”). By surface analysis, five + -ty.