forty-fourth
Americanadjective
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next after the forty-third; being the ordinal number for 44.
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being one of 44 equal parts.
noun
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a forty-fourth part, especially of one (1/44).
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the forty-fourth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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Frederick Wiseman’s new film, “Monrovia, Indiana,” his forty-fourth feature, opens this Friday at Film Forum.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018
Mike and Janet celebrated their forty-fourth wedding anniversary—Sanders got married on the same day, in 2010—at a steak house.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018
We spoke on the forty-fourth anniversary of the declaration of martial law.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016
Congress, Wyoming insisted on retaining those rights when petitioning for statehood; in 1890, when it became the forty-fourth state in the Union, it also became the first where women could vote.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016
Lexie had chosen the 100th Bomb Group, a restaurant out near the airport where the family went for very special occasions, the most recent being Mr. Richardson’s forty-fourth birthday.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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