Fifty-five

Definition: Fifty-five

Fifty-five

Adjective

1. Being five more than fifty.

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

Date "fifty-five" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonym: Fifty-five

Crosswords: Fifty-five

Flying Fifty-Five (1939)

The Flying Fifty-Five (1924)

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Books

• Saving Migrant Birds: Developing Strategies for the Future (The Corrie Herring Hooks Series, Number Fifty-Five) (reference)

• Tunisia of Ahmad Bey Eighteen Thirty-Seven to Eighteen Fifty-Five (Studies on the Near East) (reference)

• Box Office Blockbusters: Fifty-Five Movie Songs & Themes (reference)

• The works of Plato, viz his fifty-five dialogues and twelve epistles ; translated from the Greek, nine of the dialogues by the late Floyer Sydenham, and the remainder by Thomas Taylor ; with occasional annotations on the nine dialogues translated by Syden (reference)

• Marbled Designs: A Complete Guide to Fifty-Five Elegant Patterns (reference)

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Periodicals

• Fifty-five Plus (reference)

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Fifty-five percent of dried kenaf stalks will be used to make paper. Waste products from the process can be made into fertilizer and feed binder. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Grandfather of fifty-six children. Chesnee, South Carolina. He left a 300 acre farm in the North Carolina mountains when his parents died fifty-five years ago. The farm afforded insufficient living and there was no work. He walked forty-five miles to Ches.Credit: Library of Congress.

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). She's a mother and a grandmother, she works at a U.S. arsenal tapering shells for fifty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns and she loves listening to news broadcasts and Bing Crosby. Eva Smuda, fifty-five, who came to America from Po.Credit: Library of Congress.

Near Manteca, California. November 1938. Farm Security Administration (FSA) tenant purchase clients, Greeks, from Isle of Crete, formerly rehabilitation clients. Taken from ditch-bank. Had fifteen cows, now have fifty-five.Credit: Library of Congress.

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of fifty-five boys, migrants.Credit: Library of Congress.

Filipino crew of fifty-five boys cutting and loading lettuce. Imperial Valley, California.Credit: Library of Congress.

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 150 acres in all (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat; the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year they are getting between fifty-five and sixty b.Credit: Library of Congress.

Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 160 acres (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat, the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year he is getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels per acre, whereas ordinarily h.Credit: Library of Congress.

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Lois Micheltree, thirty-six, employed as a laborer at the Pennsylvania Railroad lumber yard, earning fifty-five cents per hour. She helps to load and unload lumber from cars. Mrs. Micheltree has a son in the United States Navy.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Fifty-five percent of MS patients will have an attack of optic neuritis at some time or other and it will be the first symptom of MS in approximately 15 percent. (references)

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Beginning with "fifty-five": fifty-five-foot, fifty-five-year-old.

Ending with "fifty-five": nineteen-fifty-five.

Dutch

Unie vijf en vijftig plus (Fifty-five plus Union), Unie 55+ (Fifty-five plus Union). (various references)

French

cinquante-cinq. (various references)

Mohawk

wisk-niwahsen-wisk. (various references)

Pig Latin

ifty-fivefay

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: fifty.

-5 letters: fief, fife, five, iffy, teff, tiff, tivy, yeti.

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