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Definition: 50th |
50thAdjective1. The ordinal number of fifty in counting order. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: 50thSynonym: fiftieth (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: 50th |
| English words defined with "50th": commemorate ♦ golden wedding anniversary ♦ little brother ♦ Miserere ♦ remember. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "50th": Dirty Half-Hundred ♦ IEEE 488 ♦ Wedding Anniversaries. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Ordinal Number | 100% | 251 | 18,755 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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. | ||
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)35 30 74 68 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)00110101 00110000 01110100 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)5 0 t h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0035 0030 0074 0068 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)23188674 |
| 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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