n. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
n. A fifty-dollar bill.
n. A fifty-pound note.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Five times ten.
n. The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.
n. A symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Five times ten; ten more than forty, or one more than forty-nine: a cardinal numeral.
n. The sum of five tens, or of forty-nine and one.
n. A symbol representing this number, as 50, L, or 1
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adj. being ten more than forty
n. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
n. a United States bill worth 50 dollars
Word Usage
"Lord Durham wrote, over fifty [Errata: (from final page) for _fifty_ read _forty_.] years ago, of the French Canadians: 'They are a people without a history and a literature.'"