Read full poem →The dales are light between,
Because 'tis fifty years to-night
That God has saved the Queen.
Dictionary Entry
A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.
In a Sentence
“Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?”
Origin
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Common Phrases
years fiftythousand fiftymiles fiftyfeet fiftydollars fiftyyards fiftyfifty over
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “fifty”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And with the rest your voices ring,
Lads of the Fifty-third.
Read full poem →The dales are light between,
Because ’tis fifty years to-night
That God has saved the Queen.
Read full poem →And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
Read full poem →Ah, sound no more thy soft alarms,
Nor circle sober fifty with thy charms.
Mother too fierce of dear desires!
Read full poem →Advance thy golden mountain to the skies;
On the broad base of fifty thousand rise,
Add one round hundred, and (if that's not fair)
Read full poem →Betray, and are betray'd:
Poor Y----r's sold for fifty pounds,
And B----ll is a jade.
Read full poem →'To fifty chosen Sylphs, of special note,
We trust the important charge, the petticoat: