forty-ninth
Americanadjective
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next after the forty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 49.
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being one of 49 equal parts.
noun
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a forty-ninth part, especially of one (1/49).
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the forty-ninth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, some seven hundred feet below, on the forty-ninth floor, a business-operations manager named Matt was getting ready to head home.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018
As I noted in my article, Florida ranks forty-ninth among the states in per-capita spending on community mental-health services.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2017
Alaska is the forty-ninth, state with an area of 656,424 square miles.
From Textbooks • Sep. 19, 2013
As of September 23, 2010, the United States ranked forty-ninth for both male and female life expectancy combined.
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2010
Over the years that followed, he returned repeatedly to the forty-ninth state.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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