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49th

49th

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The position that comes after forty-eight and before fifty
  • adjective
translation icon : cuadragésimo noveno
  • He received his medal for being the 49th contestant to complete the challenge.
  • 49th parallel

Examples

  • She finished in 49th place in the marathon, which was an improvement from last year.

  • A summary of the results of this study was presented at the 49th Annual Southeastern Psychological Association conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2003.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Are you going to the 49th floor, too?

    Antebellum (2020)

  • We're all going to the 49th Street Pub.

    Celebrity Crush (2019)

  • It's Mary Burke from 49th Street.

    Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

  • 49th Street, I'm supposed to be on 48th Street.

    Uncut Gems (2019)

  • Alaska became the 49th state, which brought Texas down a peg, and Hawaii became the 50th.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The addition of new states north of the 49th parallel would thus affect the partisanship and voting balance of the American electorate.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Howard's comment typifies the conventional wisdom that the 49th parallel is simply an imaginary line.

    Academic text (1999)

  • This year marks the 49th anniversary of our school's founding.

Synonyms

forty-ninth
vs49th
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The position that comes after forty-eight and before fifty

is written as numerals rather than words to indicate position

Surface Forms

49th positive
forty-ninth positive

Morphology

49th = 49 (transparent) = 49 + th

Formed by adding the regular ordinal suffix '-th' to the numeral 49 to indicate position in an ordered sequence.

Etymology

49Th is the ordinal form of the number 49, made from forty + nine with the ending -th that turns a number into a position or order. So 49th means 'in the forty-ninth position' or 'number forty-nine in a list'.