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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number fifty-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 59 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of fifty-nine equal parts of a whole.

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Examples

  • Amy Cieolara, wearing a navy blue skirt and jacket over a white silk blouse, stepped off the elevator onto the plush carpeting of the fifty-ninth floor at 2:53 p.m.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • Riding the mahogany-paneled executive elevator to the fifty-ninth floor, Amy said to herself, I could get used to all this.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • Amy Cieolara, wearing a navy blue skirt and jacket over a white silk blouse, stepped off the elevator onto the plush carpeting of the fifty-ninth floor at 2:53 p.m.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • Riding the mahogany-paneled executive elevator to the fifty-ninth floor, Amy said to herself, I could get used to all this.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • Riding the mahogany-paneled executive elevator to the fifty-ninth floor, Amy said to herself, I could get used to all this.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • Riding the mahogany-paneled executive elevator to the fifty-ninth floor, Amy said to herself, I could get used to all this.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • His fifty-ninth homer in the fourth inning brought the crowd and the television audience to the edge of their seats.

    Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010

  • It was July 24, 1992, just one day before her fifty-ninth birthday.

    Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

  • Amy Cieolara, wearing a navy blue skirt and jacket over a white silk blouse, stepped off the elevator onto the plush carpeting of the fifty-ninth floor at 2:53 p.m.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • Amy Cieolara, wearing a navy blue skirt and jacket over a white silk blouse, stepped off the elevator onto the plush carpeting of the fifty-ninth floor at 2:53 p.m.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

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