Usually means: Decade between 1940s and 1960s.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word fifties:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. fifties: Merriam-Webster
  2. fifties: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fifties, the fifties: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fifties: Vocabulary.com
  5. Fifties, fifties: Wordnik
  6. fifties, the fifties: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fifties: Wiktionary
  8. Fifties, fifties: Dictionary.com
  9. fifties: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Fifties, The Fifties (book): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Fifties: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. fifties: Rhymezone
  13. Fifties: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. fifties: FreeDictionary.org
  15. fifties: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. fifties: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fifties: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fifties: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fifties: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fifties)

▸ noun:  The decade of the 1850s, 1950s, etc.
▸ noun:  The decade of one's life from age 50 through age 59.
▸ noun:  (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 50 and 59 Fahrenheit.
▸ adjective:  From or evoking the 51st through 60th years of a century (chiefly the 1950s).

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mid-fifties, forties, eighties, seventies, 1950s, nineties, twenties, 1850s, sixties, tens, more...

Opposite:
forties, sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties

Types:
1950s, more...

Phrases:
the fifties, nineteen fifties, mid fifties, furious fifties, Lost in the Fifties Tonight, more...

Adjectives:
early, late, middle, nineteen, eighteen, mid, over, fabulous, prosperous, seventeen, furious



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Similar:
mid-fifties, forties, eighties, seventies, 1950s, nineties, twenties, 1850s, sixties, tens, more...

Opposite:
forties, sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties

Types:
1950s, more...

Phrases:
the fifties, nineteen fifties, mid fifties, furious fifties, Lost in the Fifties Tonight, description of fifties music, more...

Adjectives:
early, late, middle, nineteen, eighteen, mid, over, fabulous, prosperous, seventeen, furious



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