fifty-first

English

English ordinal numbers

<  50th	51st	52nd  >
Cardinal : fifty-one     Ordinal : fifty-first

Adjective

fifty-first (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number fifty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 51 of a sequence.

   The answer appears on the fifty-first page of the book.

   She finished fifty-first in the race.

Usage notes

English ordinal numbers may function as either an adjective or as a noun, and almost never appear in the plural.

Synonyms

• 51st, 51^st

Translations

ordinal number

• Afrikaans: een-en-vyftigste (af)
• Esperanto: kvindek-unua
• Finnish: viideskymmenesensimmäinen
• French: cinquante-premier
• Georgian: ორმოცდამეთერთმეტე (ormocdametertmeṭe), 51-ე (51-e)
• German: einundfünfzigste
• Hungarian: ötvenegyedik (hu)
• Italian: cinquantunesimo
• Malayalam: അമ്പത്തൊന്നാം (ampattonnāṁ)
• Portuguese: quinquagésimo primeiro
• Spanish: quincuagésimo primero
• Turkish: elli birinci

Noun

fifty-first (plural fifty-firsts)

1. One of fifty-one equal parts of a whole.

   A fifty-first of 1020 is 20.