forty-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 49 or XLIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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From 235 to 284, a span of only forty-nine years, the empire was ruled by upward of twenty-six different claimants to the imperial throne.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
“I had a long labor,” Klam quips, “but forty-nine years?”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2021
Nineteen forty-nine was a watershed year, a kind of clincher for the Cold War, its covert actions, its hot war interludes, and its various sequels.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2021
Edmund Schulman, the man who discovered Methuselah, died, of a stroke, at the age of forty-nine.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
Maybe my special skill is “being in lines first,” because the ruckus that ensues, the forty-nine other children trying to find the number of the kid next to him or her?
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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