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 fulfilled his promise on October 15th, 1693, and warned her of her death on her forty-eighth birthday.
From Real Ghost Stories by Stead, Estelle W.
He was now bordering on his forty-eighth year.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne
Coming directly, ma’am—one farthing is one forty-eighth; one halfpenny is one twenty-some-thingth—oh, fourth.
From A Fluttered Dovecote by Fenn, George Manville
In another day or so, if the ratio kept up, Wunpost’s sixth would be reduced to a twelfth, a twenty-fourth, a forty-eighth, a ninety-sixth–and he had discovered the mine himself!
From Wunpost by Coolidge, Dane
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