forty-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 49 or XLIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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This called into play the prophecy division of the mind and Raeillo/ee13 and Raellu//2, who had been merely interested onlookers before, hurriedly meshed themselves with the other forty nine hundred odd of their fellows.
From The Hitch Hikers by McCain, Vernon L.
An old woman then stepped forward and burst into tears: the deceased was her bridegroom, who had disappeared forty nine years ago.
From Pictures of Sweden by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Total United States pioneer applications two hundred forty nine.
From Dawn of a New Day by Shoghi Effendi
That is, it shall be seven weeks or forty nine years from the destruction of the first temple, to Cyrus, the anointed prince, who shall give leave to build the second.
From The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old by English, George Bethune
Let harmony its chords untwine, Music charms at forty nine.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 by Various
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