forty-eighth

[fawr-tee-eytth, -eyth]

adjective

1. next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.

2. being one of 48 equal parts.

noun

1. a forty-eighth part, especially of one (1/48).

2. the forty-eighth member of a series.

Example Sentences

It’s not surprising that Germany — led by a disciplined scientist, Angela Merkel — has done particularly well, with a death rate now only one forty-eighth that of the United States.

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In 1794, he was seized with an inflammation of the p. 31liver, and died on the 27th of April, in the forty-eighth year of his age. 

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The heat was very great, 18� in the shade, by Reaumur's thermometer, on board the ship, when we cast anchor at India Wharf, Boston, on the forty-eighth day of our voyage.

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The last mail from China informs us of the death of Dr. Gutzlaff, at one of the British ports in that country, on the 9th of August last, in his forty-eighth year.

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They were most elaborately stated in his forty-eighth year in a letter to Joseph Huey.

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