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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Observe four, forty; nine, ninth; maintain, maintenance; please, pleasant; speak, speech; prevail, prevalent.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland
I am a colored man weighs about 160 pounds and forty nine years old.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty fifth day of March One thousand seven hundred & forty nine.
From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.
That is, it shall be seven weeks or forty nine years from the destruction of the first temple, to Cyrus, the anointed prince, who shall give leave to build the second.
From The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old by English, George Bethune
And then Dick Bellamy ran; ran as he had not run since he broke the tape in a certain sprint of four hundred metres at Buenos Ayres, in forty nine and a quarter seconds.
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Fleming, Oliver
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