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
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
“Southwest thirteen eighty, we’re one hundred and forty-nine souls on board,” Shults said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2019
Beck, who is forty-nine, was feeling vaguely nostalgic about the place.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019
She had counted forty-nine flares when she thought she heard movement at the bottom of the tree.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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