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
By the end of the 2020 election cycle, 800,000 new voters had registered in the state, forty-nine percent of whom were people of color.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2021
Currey concluded that the tree was forty-nine hundred years old—slightly older than the bristlecones Schulman had studied in the Whites.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
So after a moment he whispered, “God, I’m only forty-nine, please let me live until I’m fifty.”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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