fiftiesnoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈfɪf.tiz/us/ˈfɪf.tiz/B2 A person's fifties are the period in which they are aged between 50 and 59:
My dad's in his fifties.
the fifties
the range of temperature between 50° and 59°:
It's been in the fifties all week.
B2 the decade (= period of ten years) between 50 and 59 in any century, usually 1950–1959:
Rock and roll first became popular in the fifties.
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Describing age & birthdays
- a ripe old age idiom
- age group
- age limit
- aged
- be knocking (on) 60, 70, etc. idiom
- gone
- junior
- nonagenarian
- octogenarian
- old
- on the right/wrong side of 40, 50, etc. idiom
- put years on sb idiom
- senior
- spring chicken
- take years off sb idiom
- teens
- this side of sth idiom
- turn
- twenty-first
- when sb was a (mere) twinkle in their father's eye idiom
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