fifties
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (of the decade) 'fifties
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fifties
Noun
[edit]fifties pl (plural only)
- The decade of the 1850s, 1950s, etc.
- The decade of one's life from age 50 through age 59.
- 2002, Laurance L. Priddy, Critical Evidence, page 96:
- […] doing variations on Old Devil Moon on trumpet, backed by an aging hippy on drums, a stringbeany, college student type on upright bass, and a balding man in his fifties playing an effectively understated piano.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 50 and 59.
- It can't snow tonight; it's forecast to be in the fifties!
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]The decade of the 1850s, 1950s, etc.
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See also
[edit]| 18th century | 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s |
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| 19th century | 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s |
| 20th century | 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s |
| 21st century | 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s |
| 22nd century | 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s |
| 23rd century | 2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s |
| Decade only | 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s |
| '00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s | |
| 00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's | |
| zeros/zeroes or aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties | |
| Nicknames | Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties |
Adjective
[edit]fifties (not comparable)
- From or evoking the 51st through 60th years of a century (chiefly the 1950s).
- Don't bring ambrosia, this isn't a fifties potluck.
- 2008, Gabriella Gahlia Modan, Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place, Wiley, →ISBN, page 4:
- As they inspect the message, "Happy B-day Netta," the bakery clerk places four plastic figures around the edges of the cake. The figures have fifties hairstyles and clothing, and they are in rock 'n roll dancing poses.