fifty-fifth

[ fif-tee-fifthor, often, -fith ]

adjective

1. next after the fifty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 55.
2. being one of 55 equal parts.

noun

1. a fifty-fifth part, especially of one (1/55).
2. the fifty-fifth member of a series.

Example Sentences

The new budget comes as the city marked its fifty-fifth murder of the year Monday with the fatal shooting of a man in the North Beacon Hill neighborhood.

From Fox News

In fact, according to the historian David Armitage, Vietnam was something like the fifty-fifth country to do so.

From The New Yorker

In August, 2016, on the occasion of Obama’s fifty-fifth birthday, Biden tweeted out an image of friendship bracelets featuring the two men’s first names, writing, of Obama, “A brother to me, a best friend forever.”

From The New Yorker

“This is my fifty-fifth year in the business, and he is all but fearless.”

From The New Yorker

Waves were rippling through the crowd long before the fifty-fifth minute, when Skënderbeu, breaking forward, added a second.

From The New Yorker