Crossword clues for fiftieth
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fiftieth \Fif"ti*eth\, a. [AS. f[=i]ftigo[eth]a. See Fifty.]
Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.
Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.
Fiftieth \Fif"ti*eth\, n. One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. The ordinal form of the number fifty. n. 1 The person or thing in the fiftieth position. 2 One of fifty equal parts of a whole.
WordNet
adj. the ordinal number of fifty in counting order [syn: 50th]
n. position 50 in a countable series of things
Usage examples of "fiftieth".
Grant was thinking that this was about the fiftieth urgent agendum that had been pressed upon him, each more crucial than the other, and he was becoming powerless to evaluate them, but he did acknowledge that he had two personal obligations which had to be considered seriously.
William Winter at a dinner given by the Lotos Club, New York City, November 30, 1878, to John Gilbert, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance on the stage.
The steeple on the far left belonged to the Methodist church, and a block behind it, unseen from the bleachers, was a handsome two-story home the town had given to Eddie Rake on his fiftieth birthday.
When the Government held its celebratory lunch for the fiftieth wedding anniversary of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, I needed special dispensation to slip away in order to be on time for the 2.
Nova Scotia, called by the French Acadia, lies between the forty-fourth and fiftieth degrees of north latitude, having New England and the Atlantic ocean to the south and south-west, and the river and gulph of St.
Cyrus Harding announced this result to his companions, and taking into consideration errors of observation, as he had done for the latitude, he believed he could positively affirm that the position of Lincoln Island was between the thirty-fifth and the thirty-seventh parallel, and between the hundred and fiftieth and the hundred and fifty-fifth meridian to the west of the meridian of Greenwich.
The meeting ended, and Skilling, downcast, followed Kinder to the elevator for the fiftieth floor.
On the east side of the avenue, and occupying the block between Fiftieth and Fifty-first streets, is the new St.
There is an instance on record of a female who menstruated every three months during the period from her fiftieth to her seventy-fourth year, the discharge, however, being very slight.
Anemonin, or Pulsatilla Camphor, which is the active principle of this plant, is prepared by the chemist, and may be given in doses of from one fiftieth to one tenth of a grain rubbed up with dry sugar of milk.
WITH 1826 marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it was not long into the new year when Adams and Jefferson were being asked to attend a variety of celebrations planned to commemorate the historic event on the Fourth of July.
The survivors of this particular campaign recently signed an affidavit testifying to the mass kidnapping at their Fiftieth Jubilee of the Anzac Landing.
Nell and I had been in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the highest and driest desert in the world, on her fiftieth birthday.
Her yellow hair rolled back from her round forehead and cool pink cheeks like a veritable nimbus, and for the fiftieth time Condy remarked the charming contrast of her small, deep-brown eyes in the midst of this white satin, yellow hair, white skin, and exquisite pink cheeks.
I said fatuously, and we walked out of the hotel, down into the long pedestrian tunnel which led under The Fiftieth Anniversary of the October Revolution Square and up into a cobbled street with the red walls of the Kremlin away to the right.