fifties
About 3.34 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun plural of fifty
- noun The sixth decade of a century: the 1850s, 1950s, 2050s, etc.
I will probably be dead by the fifties.
- noun The decade of one's life from age 50 through age 59.
You don't really start living until you're in your fifties!
- noun The range between 50 and 59 Fahrenheit.
It can't snow tonight; it's forecast to be in the fifties!
- adjective From or evoking the 51st through 60th years of a century (chiefly the 1950s).
Don't bring ambrosia, this isn't a fifties potluck.
Similar words
mid-fifties five onwards midcentury mid-century postwar baby-boom forties eighties seventies
Often followed by
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Word family
50 fiftieth fiftieths fifty fiftyish
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