fifty-seventh

[ fif-tee-sev-uhnth ]

adjective

1. next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
2. being one of 57 equal parts.

noun

1. a fifty-seventh part, especially of one (1/57).
2. the fifty-seventh member of a series.

Example Sentences

Bright and early on a recent Saturday, Charles Ray, the Los Angeles sculptor, stepped out of the Four Seasons Hotel, and walked west on Fifty-seventh Street.

From The New Yorker

Leech looked downtown, toward needle-shaped skyscrapers on Fifty-seventh Street—pieds-à-terre for oligarchs.

From The New Yorker

Her first New York show was in 1983, at the McKee Gallery, on Fifty-seventh Street.

From The New Yorker

She is often photographed staring straight ahead, and when we met for lunch on Fifty-seventh Street, on Monday, I swear she maintained eye contact for forty-five minutes straight.

From The New Yorker

All three hundred and sixty-five days’ worth of his 2017 “zips,” as he calls them, are on view at the fifty-seventh edition of the Carnegie International, in Pittsburgh, through March 25th.

From The New Yorker