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Definition of Fifty-fifth
1. Adjective. The ordinal number of fifty-five in counting order.
Definition of Fifty-fifth
1. Numeral. (ordinal) The ordinal form of the number fifty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 55 of a sequence. ¹
2. Noun. (fractional) One of fifty-five equal parts of a whole. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fifty-fifth
Literary usage of Fifty-fifth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers by Whitelaw Reid (1868)
"T HE fifty-fifth OHIO went into camp at Norwalk, Ohio, on the 17th of October,
... In the latter part of April seven companies of the Fifty-Fifth moved with ..."
2. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"ACTS OF fifty-fifth CONGRESS FIRST SESSION, 1897. CHAP 3.—An act making appropriations
for the current and contingent expenses june ..."
3. Four Years with the Army of the Potomac by Régis de Trobriand (1888)
"The Guard Lafayette, fifty-fifth New York militia — Camp at Staten Island —
Departure for Washington — Collision — At Philadelphia — Through Baltimore ..."
4. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5: Prepared in Compliance with Acts by Samuel Penniman Bates (1869)
"The fifty-fifth was immediately sent out to guard the small islands and approaches
to the west of Hilton Head, where it remained until the 25th of February, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... the fifty-fifth canto in the verse, " Man, her last work, who seemed so fair,
Such splendid purpose in his eyes,— Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, ..."
6. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"Refuses to attend fifty-fifth reunion of his class. — Statue to him proposed.
— Ezra Cornell's benefaction. — American Asiatic Society. ..."
7. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"Refuses to attend fifty-fifth reunion of his class. — Statue to him proposed.
— Ezra Cornell's benefaction. — American Asiatic Society. ..."
8. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1871)
"EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN WINEPRESS OF THE fifty-fifth REGIMENT TO SIR
JEFFREY AMHERST, DATED ALBANY, MAY, 31, 1762. " The civil magistrates both in ..."
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