The ordinal form of the number fifty-six, describing a person or thing in position number 56 of a sequence.(noun)
One of fifty-six equal parts of a whole.(noun)
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Use "fifty-sixth" in a sentence
"The Republican Party of Minnesota's fifty-sixth Senate district is out with a new web video firing an unusual line of attack: women affiliated with the GOP are hotter than their Democratic counterparts."
"Another film I feel embarrassed to say that I haven't yet seen, especially as it currently sits fifty-sixth on the IMDB top rated films, and that should say a lot for the German film which carries subtitles all the way through, so often a turn off for general audiences."
"And so on the ninth day of her sickness, in the fifty-sixth year of her life and the thirty-third of mine, that religious and devout soul was set loose from the body."