Fifty-six

Definitions: Fifty-six

Fifty-six

Adjective

1. Being six more than fifty.

Date "fifty-six" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Fifty-six

Synonym: lvi (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Fifty-six

English words defined with "fifty-six": Diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fifty-six": King of Bath ♦ Roscius. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I learned that the best way to keep my parents off my back was to act like a grown-up, but I've been eight for fifty-six years. (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin)
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Domain	Title
Books	Chen Style T'Ai Chi Ch'Uan: Thirty-Six and Fifty-Six Movements (Chinese Martial Arts Series 3) (reference) The Signers: The Fifty-Six Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence (reference) (more book examples)
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	Grandmother of fifty-six children, mother of fourteen, ten living. Near Chesnee, South Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.		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.
	Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, mounts fifty-six steps to reach the fire tower.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Seventy-six percent of Italian families own at least one car; fifty-six percent have two cars (which is a record level in Europe), with the second car usually small and equipped with minimal accessories. (references)
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"Fifty-six" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fifty-six" is used about 66 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
Cardinal Number	100%	66	41,290

1. Fifty-Six, AR (city, FIPS 23680)
Location: 35.96040 N, 92.22992 W
Population (1990): 156 (76 housing units)
Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Expression: Fifty-six

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "fifty-six": fifty-six-year-old.
	Ending with "fifty-six": nineteen-fifty-six.
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Bible Trace: Fifty-six

Language	Date	Source	Ezra Chapter 2, Verse 30
Latin	405	Vulgate	Filii Megbis centum quinquaginta sex
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	An hundrid and sixe and fifti;
Jacobean English	1611	King James	The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	The children of Magbish, a hundred fifty and six.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	The children of Magbish, a hundred and fifty-six.
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Matched Bible Translations: Fifty-six

Language	Ezra Chapter 2, Verse 30
Albanian	Bijtë e Magbishit, njëqind e pesëdhjetë e gjashtë.
Cebuano	Ang mga anak ni Magbis, usa ka gatus kalim-an ug unom.
Chinese	末必人、一百 �" 十六名．
Croatian	sinovi Magbiša: stotinu pedeset i šest;
Dutch	De kinderen van Magbis, honderd zes en vijftig.
Finnish	Magbiin jälkeläisiä sata viisikymmentä kuusi;
French	les fils de Magbisch, cent cinquante-six;
German	der Kinder Magbis hundertsechsundfünfzig;
Hungarian	Magbis fiai százötvenhat;
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bani Majbis seratus lima puluh enam.
Italian	Figli di Magbis: centocinquantasei.
Maori	Ko nga tama a Makapihi, kotahi rau e rima tekau ma ono.
Norwegian	Magbis' barn, hundre og seks og femti;
Portuguese	Os filhos de Magbis, cento e cinqüenta e seis.
Rumanian	fiii lui Magbiw, o sutq cincizeci wi wase;
Russian	ХТПЦЕО�"ЕЧ нБЗ�'ЙЫБ УФП � СФШ�"ЕУСФ ЫЕУФШ;
Swedish	Magbis' barn: ett hundra femtiosex;
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Anagrams: Fifty-six

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-f-i-i-s-t-x-y"
	-2 letters: fixity.
	-3 letters: fifty, fixit, sixty, stiff, tiffs, xysti.
	-4 letters: fist, fits, fixt, iffy, sift, tiff, xyst.
	-5 letters: fit, fix, iff, ifs, its, sit, six, sty, tis, xis.
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