forty-eighth

[ fawr-tee-eytth, -eyth ]

adjective

1. next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
2. being one of 48 equal parts.

noun

1. a forty-eighth part, especially of one (1/48).
2. the forty-eighth member of a series.

Example Sentences

This pretty charmer was in her forty-eighth year when he married her, he being then twenty-seven.

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Witnessed myself, at Lewes, on May the third, in the forty-eighth year of our reign.

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“Oh,” said Mrs. Flicker to her husband, as she swallowed the six hundred-and-forty-eighth Ant since sunrise.

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Colonel Sullivan, of the Forty-eighth Ohio, was wounded, but continued at the head of his men.

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With solemn brevity does the prophet Jeremiah refer to this custom in the forty-eighth chapter, and the thirty-eighth verse.

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