Meanings
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The number 50, which comes after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
About fifty people attended the wedding.
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noun
A banknote or coin worth fifty.
Do you want small bills, or are fifties OK?
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fifties
Etymology
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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