fifty-oneth en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌfɪfti ˈwʌnθ/
Etymology
From fifty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Meanings
- (nonstandard, not-comparable) fifty-first
Dictionary
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fifty-oneth en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌfɪfti ˈwʌnθ/
Etymology
From fifty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Meanings
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(uncountable) A fractional part of fifty-one.
But the eye could only divine, could not measure, the difference between the fiftieth of a millimetre and the fifty-oneth, and she wished to measure.
1925, M. P. Shiel, The Black Box, page 81: