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fiftieth

FIF-tee-uhth/ˈfɪf.ti.əθ/

Noun pluralfiftieths

3 meanings of fiftieth

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  1. 1
    adjective
    In position number fifty, coming after forty-nine others in order.

    Tomorrow is my grandmother's fiftieth birthday.

    He finished the race in fiftieth place.

  2. 2
    nouncountable
    The person or thing that is number fifty in a line or list.

    He was the fiftieth to sign up for the school trip.

    The fiftieth in line got the last free ticket.

  3. 3
    nouncountable
    One piece of something that has been split into fifty equal pieces.

    Like cutting a pizza into fifty tiny slices and taking just one.

    Each child got one fiftieth of the big bag of candy.

    A fiftieth of the cake is a very small slice.

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Origin

From Middle English, made from the word 'fifty' plus the ending '-eth'.