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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“Sixteen, forty-nine, eleven, one hundred and two,” she said.
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“And one person in that group won’t fit in with the other two hundred forty-nine. That’s your one in a thousand.”
From Literature
Several thousand soldiers were court-martialed and forty-nine were shot, but for the great majority of the men under his command, Pétain introduced reforms—longer periods of rest, more home leave, and better food.
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Indeed, its only peer in the United States was the Manhattan Chess Club, forty-nine blocks to the north.
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Nixon carried forty-nine states, winning more than 60 percent of the vote to McGovern’s 37 percent.
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