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fiftieth (iou)



fiftieth adjective & noun (ordinal numeral).

A. adjective. Next in order after the forty-ninth, that is number fifty in a series, (represented by 50th). OE.
fiftieth part arch. = sense B.2 below.
Bible (AV): Leviticus 25:11 A Iubile shall that fiftieth yeere be vnto you.
b. noun.
The fiftieth person or thing of a category, series, etc., identified contextually. OE.
Each of fifty equal parts into which something is or may be divided, a fraction which when multiplied by fifty gives one, (= fiftieth part above). E19.
Comb.: Forming compound numerals with multiples of a hundred, as one-hundred-and-fiftieth (150th) etc., and (arch.) with numerals below ten, as three-and-fiftieth etc.