fifty-nine

One before sixty

Fifty-nine is the cardinal number between fifty-eight and sixty, written 59.

It appears in ages, quantities, and measurements: She's fifty-nine years old, fifty-nine cents, fifty-nine minutes.

As an ordinal, fifty-ninth indicates position in a sequence: the fifty-ninth day.

age

retirement

Leaving the workforce permanently

AARP · middle-aged · birthday · milestone · midlife · baby-boomer · life-stage · maturity · experience

counting

sixty

Six times ten

numeral · digit · cardinal · ordinal · arithmetic · addition · subtraction · increment · consecutive · count

mathematics

integer

Number lacking fractions

divisibility · Grothendieck

quantity

measurement

Determining size or amount

score

sports

uniform

Identical throughout

hockey · basketball · athlete · team

Categories
Opposites
roundness/precision

fifty-ninesixty

Six times ten

fifty · one hundred · zero · round number · ten

Family

five, ninth, fifty, nine, ninety, nineteen, fiftieth, fifteenth, nineteenth

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G