fifties in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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fifties [Brit ˈfɪftɪz] N npl

fifty [Brit ˈfɪfti, Am ˈfɪfti] N ADJ

I.fifty-fifty [Brit ˌfɪftɪˈfɪfti, Am ˌfɪftiˈfɪfti] ADJ

II.fifty-fifty [Brit ˌfɪftɪˈfɪfti, Am ˌfɪftiˈfɪfti] ADV

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fifties revivalism
retour m au style des années cinquante

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être quinquagénaire
to be in one's fifties
quinquagénaire
person in his/her fifties
cinquante
fifty
quinqua
fifty-something inf
cinquantenaire
fifty-year-old attr
cinquantenaire
fifty years old never attr
cinquantaine
about fifty
une cinquantaine d'étudiants manifestaient
fifty or so students were demonstrating, about fifty students were demonstrating
avoir une cinquantaine d'années
to be about fifty
la cinquantaine de passagers qui attendaient
the fifty or so passengers who were waiting
il y en a une bonne cinquantaine
there are well over fifty of them
il y a une cinquantaine d'années
about fifty years ago
nous étions une cinquantaine/plus d'une cinquantaine
there were about fifty of us/more than fifty of us
il faut compter une cinquantaine d'euros
it's going to cost around fifty euros
avoir la cinquantaine
to be about fifty
approcher de la cinquantaine
to be getting on for fifty
Bernard, la cinquantaine bedonnante, est employé de bureau
Bernard, fifty and pot-bellied, works in an office
demi-franc
half a franc, fifty centimes

fifties in the PONS Dictionary

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See also eighty, eight

I.eighty [ˈeɪtɪ, Am -t̬ɪ] ADJ

II.eighty [ˈeɪtɪ, Am -t̬ɪ] N

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to be nudging fifty
approcher les cinquante ans

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homme/femme quinquagénaire
fifty-year-old man/woman
être quinquagénaire
to be fifty
quinquagénaire
fifty-year-old
cinquante
fifty
à cinquante (à l'heure) [ou (kilomètres à l'heure)]
at fifty miles an hour
les années cinquante
the fifties
cinquante
fifty
une cinquantaine de personnes/pages
about fifty people/pages
avoir la cinquantaine [ou une cinquantaine d'années]
to be about fifty (years old)
approcher de la cinquantaine
to be getting on for fifty
avoir (largement) dépassé la cinquantaine
to be (well) over fifty (years old)
avoir cinquante ans bien sonnés inf
to be on the wrong side of fifty
à cinquante mètres d'ici
fifty metres from here
homme de cinquante ans
a fifty-year-old (man)
il ne me reste (plus) que toi/cinquante euros
all I've got left is you/fifty euros

fifties Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be nudging fifty
approcher les cinquante ans
a fifty-fifty chance
cinquante pour cent de chances
all I've got left is you/fifty euros
il ne me reste (plus) que toi/cinquante euros
to be on the wrong side of fifty
avoir cinquante ans bien sonnés inf
to be about fifty (years old)
avoir la cinquantaine [ou une cinquantaine d'années]
to be getting on for fifty
approcher de la cinquantaine
to be (well) over fifty (years old)
avoir (largement) dépassé la cinquantaine
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He made many starts, with 11 fifties, but was only able to capitalise and reached triple figures only once.
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Humour and intensity characterise the film that is set in the mid-fifties.
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Two men aged in their forties and fifties were seriously injured when their motorcycles were involved in a collision with the trailer unit of an articulated lorry.
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Rich described the fifties as a time when middle-class women were making careers of domestic perfection.
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In the early 1450s, both families were led by men in their fifties, who both had violent and hotheaded sons.
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Several potteries were formed in response to this fifties boom, and this style of studio pottery remained popular into the nineteen-seventies.
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A small, kindly (if somewhat ridiculous) woman in her fifties, she is a miniature-portrait painter.
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They talk like it's the fifties or the sixties and you have these airtight roles and an electrician can't fix a water fountain without a pipe fitter.
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In the mid fifties, the little magazine movement gained momentum.
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He produces three-dimensional collages using a range of sources, including old textbooks, fifties and sixties furniture, remnants of cut linoleum and polystyrene.
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