fifty-first
Speech parts
1. fifty-first - Noun
2. fifty-first - Adjective
Meaning
fifty-first (not comparable)
The ordinal form of the number fifty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 51 of a sequence.
The answer appears on the fifty-first page of the book.
She finished fifty-first in the race.
fifty-first (plural fifty-firsts)
One of fifty-one equal parts of a whole.
A fifty-first of 1020 is 20.
Synonyms
Examples
Also, Anderson submitted his petitions for his fifty-first ballot.
In the fall of 2002, months before the war began, James Fallows published entitled "The Fifty-First State?" based on interviews with dozens of experts who painted a grim picture of what lay ahead.
Rod has decided to take his entire family on the "grand tour" for his fifty-first birthday: a whirlwind of restaurants, galleries, and concert halls from Paris to Florence to Vienna to Amsterdam.
With uncanny prescience, and against the tide of much popular opinion, James Fallows projects, in “The Fifty-First State?”
Quoted in Robb, 404 They arrived in the French capital on 20 May, his fifty-first birthday.
The problem of imperial invasion was intensified by a Russian claim to the Pacific coast down to the fifty-first parallel and simultaneous European pressure to have all of Latin America returned to its colonial status.