We were fifty kilometers from the front but the adjutant worried about the fire in my kitchen.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— a number equal to five times 10
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Macmillan
— the number 50
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Other Word Forms
fifties
Usage
1 use of ‘fifty’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
6 uses of ‘fifty’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
12 uses of ‘fifty’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3 uses of ‘fifty’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle