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What is the noun for fifties?

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fifty
  1. (countable) A fifty-dollar bill.
  2. (countable) A fifty-pound note.
  3. (cricket) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.
fiftieth
  1. The person or thing in the fiftieth position.
  2. One of fifty equal parts of a whole.
fiftysomething
  1. (countable, colloquial) A person aged between 50 and 59 years.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She was a spritely fiftysomething.”
fifties
  1. plural of fifty
  2. The decade of the 1850s, 1950s, etc.
  3. The decade of one's life from age 50 through age 59.
  4. Examples:
    1. “During the fifties and the sixties more than 100,000 trees were cut down to allow for the enlargement of roads.”
      “As the baby-boomers enter their mid to late fifties the issue of how we care for the aged is never far from the news headlines.”
      “The crucial distinction between the fifties and sixties lay in word, not in deed.”
fiftysomethings
fiftieths
  1. plural of fiftieth
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