fifty-sixth

[ fif-tee-siksth ]

adjective

1. next after the fifty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 56.
2. being one of 56 equal parts.

noun

1. a fifty-sixth part, especially of one (1/56).
2. the fifty-sixth member of a series.

Example Sentences

He was looking downtown, his eyes squinting, trying to make out figures as far away as Fifty-sixth Street.

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He has completely, in his fifty-sixth year, lost the position of leadership, of eminence that once he had.

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An attack of gout in the head and stomach terminated his life in December, 1771, in the fifty-sixth year of his age.

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On the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth days of the fast he remained in bed, the condition being much the same.

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This little book is in its fifty-sixth year, and is one of the best of its kind published.

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