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Word entry · 5 letters

fifty

Best crossword clue

"Five tens"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɪfti/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted ffityStarts with FEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. being ten more than forty

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • It was just fifty children that Selene bore to Endymion. Are not the innumerable waves typified by the fifty Nereïds? And did not Priam have fifty sons and fifty daughters?
  • 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.
  • Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?

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