adjective
- next after the forty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 50.
- being one of 50 equal parts.
noun
- a fiftieth part, especially of one (1/50).
- the fiftieth member of a series.
adjective
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- being the ordinal number of fifty in order, position, time, etc. Often written: 50th
- (as noun)the fiftieth in the series
noun
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- one of 50 equal or approximately equal parts of something
- (as modifier)a fiftieth part
- the fraction equal to one divided by 50 (1/50)
Old English fiftigoða; see fifty + -th (1). Cf. Old Norse fimmtugande, and, with a different suffix, Old Frisian fiftichsta, Dutch vijftigste, Old High German fimfzugsto, German fünfzigste.