fifty

Meanings

1. 1
   num

   The number 50, which comes after forty-nine and before fifty-one.

   About fifty people attended the wedding.

2. 2
   noun

   A banknote or coin worth fifty.

   Do you want small bills, or are fifties OK?

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

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