fifty-eight

Thân thiện

The baker places fifty-eight loaves of bread on the display rack.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Being eight more than fifty: The number that is exactly eight units greater than fifty; equivalent to 58.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The recipe calls for fifty-eight grams of sugar.
  • She collected fifty-eight different species of butterflies.

Advanced Usage

• As a determiner or quantifier: Used to specify an exact quantity of fifty-eight items.
  • All fifty-eight participants completed the survey.
• In scores or statistics: Commonly used in sports, data, or measurements.
  • The final score was fifty-eight to forty-two.

Variants and Related Words

• 58: The numeral form.
• LVIII: The Roman numeral form.
• Fifty-eighth (adj.): Constituting number fifty-eight in a sequence; the ordinal form.
  • This is the fifty-eighth edition of the annual report.

Synonyms

• LVIII (Roman numeral).
• Five dozen minus two (descriptive phrase).

Related Phrases

• Fifty-eight percent: A specific percentage.
  • Fifty-eight percent of voters approved the measure.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. being eight more than fifty

Từ đồng nghĩa

• 58
• lviii