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forty-ninth

[ fawr-tee-nahynth ]

adjective

  1. next after the forty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 49.
  2. being one of 49 equal parts.


noun

  1. a forty-ninth part, especially of one (1/49).
  2. the forty-ninth member of a series.
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Example Sentences

Annie and I got into separate elevators and raced each other up to the forty-ninth floor and then back down to street level.

In September, 2019, at the start of his forty-ninth year of incarceration, he will become eligible for parole again.

Meanwhile, some seven hundred feet below, on the forty-ninth floor, a business-operations manager named Matt was getting ready to head home.

On the forty-ninth day after Lynn’s death I opened all the windows in the alcove, even though it was raining.

On the forty-ninth shot, I am only slightly aware that I am moments from fifty.

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