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50s

nounattested in dialogue

The decade of the 1950s.

noun

  1. 1

    The decade of the 1950s.

    “It’s possible when we started building research stations in the 50s and 60s words like ‘boondoggle’ might have been common at that time and it became a regular part of speech … in Antarctic culture it can take on a life of its own.”

  2. 2

    A range of the numbers fifty (50) to fifty-nine (59).

    No way you're in your 50s! I find that hard to believe.

    Temperatures today will range from the low to high 50s.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).