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.
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Indiana is ranked forty-eighth in the nation for public-health spending.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019
He lingered four days, the greater part of the time in a state of insensibility, and expired the evening of the 24th of January, in the forty-eighth year of his age.
From Rulers of India: Akbar by George Bruce Malleson
The artificers commenced this morning at five o’clock, and, in the course of the day, they laid the forty-eighth and forty-ninth courses, consisting each of sixteen blocks.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
He fulfilled his promise on October 15th, 1693, and warned her of her death on her forty-eighth birthday.
From Real Ghost Stories by Estelle W. Stead
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
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