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fifty adjective & noun (cardinal numeral).

A. adjective.
Five times ten (a cardinal numeral represented by 50 in arabic numerals, l, L in roman). OE.
Browning The new edition fifty volumes long. Tennyson Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
A large indefinite number of. E19.
H. S. Blackwood I'll not forget old Ireland, Were it fifty times as fair.
b. noun.
Fifty persons or things identified contextually, as years of age, points, runs, etc., in a game, chances (in giving odds), etc. OE.
Leigh Hunt A corpulent man of fifty.
A set of fifty; a thing having a set of fifty as an essential or distinguishing feature; spec. a fifty-pound note or fifty-dollar bill. OE.
Bible (AV): 2 Kings 1:13 Hee sent againe a captaine of the third fiftie, with his fiftie.
Five times ten as an abstract number; the symbols or figures representing this (50 in arabic numerals, l, L in roman). LME.
The fiftieth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated fifty, (usu. number fifty, or with specification, as chapter fifty, verse fifty, etc.); a size etc. denoted by fifty (also size fifty). E16.
In pl. The numbers from 50 to 59 inclusive, esp. denoting years of a century or units of a scale of temperature; one's years of life between the ages of 50 and 59. L19.
R. B. Anderson A series of works published in the fifties and sixties.
Comb.: Forming compound numerals (cardinal or ordinal) with numerals below ten, as fifty-nine (59), fifty-ninth (59th), etc., and (cardinals) with multiples of a hundred, as 350 (read three hundred and fifty, US also three hundred fifty), etc. Special combs., as fifty-fifty adverb & adjective (colloq., orig. US) (on a basis of) fifty per cent, with equal shares, half-and-half; fifty-year rule a rule that public records should normally become open to inspection fifty years after their compilation.
fiftyfold adjective & adverb (a) adjective fifty times as great or as numerous; having fifty parts, divisions, elements, or units; (b) adverb to fifty times the number or quantity: OE.
fiftyish adjective about fifty (in age, measurements, etc.) E20.