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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.
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Example Sentences

On April 20, 1945, his fifty-sixth birthday, he called several Hitler Youth to the Chancellery.

Instead of making his fifty-sixth move, Fischer stopped the clock and offered his hand in resignation.

Today is the third, the twenty-second, the fifty-sixth day of lockdown, she notes.

Colvin survived her Chechen experience and a dozen or more equally dangerous episodes during her twenty-five years as a war reporter, but, a month after her fifty-sixth birthday, in February, 2012, her luck ran out, in Syria.

He’d spent his fifty-sixth birthday putting out hot spots around his house, and ultimately saving it from burning.

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