fifties
noun/ˈfɪftiz/
Frequency rank: #10,490 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
the decade of age from 50 to 59, or the years 1950–1959.
Example sentence
My grandfather retired comfortably when he reached his fifties.
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