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forty-nine
[ fawr-tee-nahyn ]
noun
- a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
- a symbol for this number, as 49 or XLIX.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
- amounting to 49 in number.
Example Sentences
“And one person in that group won’t fit in with the other two hundred forty-nine. That’s your one in a thousand.”
Several thousand soldiers were court-martialed and forty-nine were shot, but for the great majority of the men under his command, Pétain introduced reforms—longer periods of rest, more home leave, and better food.
Batteries can't provide that on the scale required, and so the result is that California still burns natural gas to produce forty-nine percent of its electricity, according to recently published Statista data.
Indeed, its only peer in the United States was the Manhattan Chess Club, forty-nine blocks to the north.
Nixon carried forty-nine states, winning more than 60 percent of the vote to McGovern’s 37 percent.
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