Definitions
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?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Five tens”5 letters
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