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
The only exception is Nebraska, which has a unicameral state senate of forty-nine members.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 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
In July, forty-nine writers, filmmakers, and artists wrote a public letter to Modi protesting mob lynchings; in October, they were threatened with a court case.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2019
He said for the next forty-nine days I could stay busy by taking care of a box of Lynn’s things he would help me make.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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