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forty-sixth

[ fawr-tee-siksth ]

adjective

  1. next after the forty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 46.
  2. being one of 46 equal parts.


noun

  1. a forty-sixth part, especially of one (1/46).
  2. the forty-sixth member of a series.
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Example Sentences

Petrosian resigned on the forty-sixth move, and Bobby Fischer was the new challenger for the World Championship.

When, the following year, Oklahoma entered the Union as the forty-sixth state, members of the tribe were able to sell their surface land in what was now Osage County.

The lectern was forty-six inches high, for the forty-sixth, and next, President.

“Oklahoma!,” based on the 1931 play “Green Grow the Lilacs,” takes place in 1906, when Oklahoma was on the cusp of becoming the forty-sixth state.

Last year, I travelled from Abuja, where I live, to Umujieze for my parents’ forty-sixth wedding anniversary.

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