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FIFTY-THREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fifty-three mean? 

FIFTY-THREE (adjective)
  The adjective FIFTY-THREE has 1 sense:

1. being three more than fiftyplay

  Familiarity information: FIFTY-THREE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FIFTY-THREE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Being three more than fifty

Synonyms:

53; fifty-three; liii

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)


 Context examples 


On the contrary, said Holmes, out of my last fifty-three cases my name has only appeared in four, and the police have had all the credit in forty-nine.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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