forty-eighth
Americanadjective
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next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
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being one of 48 equal parts.
noun
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a forty-eighth part, especially of one (1/48).
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the forty-eighth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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Indiana is ranked forty-eighth in the nation for public-health spending.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019
He died in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and in the forty-eighth of his reign.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
At the period of this narrative he was close to his forty-eighth year.
From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Eug?ne Sue
But Ptolemy of Lucca, and other contemporary authors, say expressly in his forty-eighth, which also agrees with his whole history.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
Coming directly, ma’am—one farthing is one forty-eighth; one halfpenny is one twenty-some-thingth—oh, fourth.
From A Fluttered Dovecote by George Manville Fenn
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