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50th

Definition: 50th

50th

Adjective

1. The ordinal number of fifty in counting order.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: 50th

Synonym: fiftieth (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: 50th

English words defined with "50th": commemorategolden wedding anniversarylittle brotherMiserereremember. (references)
Specialty definitions using "50th": Dirty Half-HundredIEEE 488Wedding Anniversaries. (references)

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Modern Usage: 50th

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Walt Disney's 50th Anniversary Show (1973)

The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953)

50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures (1944)

ABC 50th Anniversary Blooper Celebration (2003)

TV Guide 50 Best Shows of All Time: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: 50th

DomainTitle

Books

  • Canto General, 50th Anniversary Edition (Latin American Literature and Culture) (reference)

  • Society of Actuaries 50th Anniversary Monograph (reference)

  • Corvette 50th Anniversary 2003 Calendar (reference)

  • Anthem: 50th Anniversary Edition (reference)

  • The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version With Apocrypha: Genuine Cowhide Black: 50th Anniversary Edition (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • NASCAR: 50th Anniversary - Inherit the Win (reference)

  • Midwest Old Threshers 50th Reunion (reference)

  • NASCAR: 50th Anniversary - Sincerely, Bill France (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  • Aristocrat Of The Blues (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) [2-CD SET] (reference)

  • Her Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  • His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) (reference)

  • Sir Georg Solti: United Nations 50th Anniversary Concert (reference)

  • V-E Day 50th Anniversary: The Musical Memories of World War II (reference)

    (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: 50th

Computer Images:
50th

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Non-Fiction Usage: 50th

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Namibia

Namibia became the 160th member of the United Nations on April 23, 1990, and the 50th member of the British Commonwealth upon independence. (references)

Portugal

As only the 50th largest market for the direct export of U.S. goods and services, Portugal does not frequently rank on top of the lists of new markets to explore. (references)

Philippines

Then-President Ramos underscored the strength of the bilateral relationship by declaring July 4, 1996 to be Philippine-American Friendship Day in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Philippine independence. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

There was no new information on the death of Nilson Saldinia, who died in June 2000 in the 50th district jail in Sao Paulo's Itaim Paulista neighborhood. (references)

Korea

In September 1998, celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK included hours of carefully choreographed demonstration of mass adulation of the leadership. (references)

Worker Rights

Belgium

Work done from the 9th to the 11th hour per day or from the 40th to the 50th hour per week is considered allowable overtime. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: 50th

"50th" is generally used as an ordinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "50th" is used about 251 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Ordinal Number100%25118,755

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: 50th

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

50th wedding anniversary

544

50th birthday

402

50th anniversary

308

50th wedding anniversary gift

236

50th anniversary gift

218

50th birthday party idea

119

50th birthday party

95

50th wedding anniversary poem

91

50th anniversary poem

88

50th birthday card

81
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: 50th

Language Translations for "50th"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

癸丑 (50th of the sexagenary cycle). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きちゅう (50th of the sexagenary cycle, mourning). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Alternative Orthography: 50th


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

35 30 74 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

00110101 00110000 01110100 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#53 &#48 &#116 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0035 0030 0074 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

23188674

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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