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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From 235 to 284, a span of only forty-nine years, the empire was ruled by upward of twenty-six different claimants to the imperial throne.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
By the end of the 2020 election cycle, 800,000 new voters had registered in the state, forty-nine percent of whom were people of color.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2021
“Southwest thirteen eighty, we’re one hundred and forty-nine souls on board,” Shults said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2019
There were a hundred and forty-nine passengers, from thirty-five countries, and eight crew members.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019
“Sixteen, forty-nine, eleven, one hundred and two,” she said.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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