48th
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- adjective
- /ˈfɔrtiˌeɪθ/
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cuarenta y ocho
- Your office is on the 48th floor.
- 48th Annual
Examples
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Instead, he wandered out to 48th Street, where he had a leisurely late supper at Patsy's, his favorite Italian restaurant.
Blog text (16) -
During the Civil War, Stuart served in the 48th Regiment of New York Volunteers and played in the band.
Academic text (2009) -
The 48th Congress had the responsibility to write a new constitution.
Academic text (1998) -
I grew up on the corner of 48th and 7th Avenue, right by the church.
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Harper scored, and the Nats won 6-5 for their 48th win this season.
Blog text (29) -
Boston's 48th annual Head of the Charles Regatta was held on Saturday, October 20th.
Blog text (20) -
Call for papers and participation for the Northeastern Political Science Association's 48th annual meeting, which will be held November 11-13 in Boston.
Academic text (2016) -
A portion of this work was presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia (Athens, Greece) in October 2010.
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The 48th annual festival attracted many visitors from the region.
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She was thrilled to be promoted to the 48th position in the competition.
Synonyms
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Comes after the forty-seventh in a list, number 48
Surface Forms
Morphology
48th = 48 (transparent) = 48 + th
Standard ordinal formation: the numeral plus the productive suffix '-th' yields the ordinal meaning directly.
Etymology
48Th is formed by adding the ending -th to the number 48, where -th shows 'position in order', just like in fourth or fifth. So 48th means 'the forty-eighth item' in a list.