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forty-fourth

forty-fourth

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Number that comes after forty-three in a list
  • adjective
  • /ˈfɔrtiˈfɔrθ/
translation icon : cuadragésimo cuarto
  • At its forty-fourth session in 1992, the ILC established a working group, which laid down basic parameters for a draft statute of an international criminal tribunal (Akhavan 1995, Bassiouni 1995).
  • the forty-fourth floor

Examples

  • On her forty-fourth birthday, she decided to take a solo trip to Paris.

  • The forty-fourth chapter of the novel introduces a new character who changes everything.

  • The occasion was the forty-fourth international convention of the Polish Singers Alliance of America.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Norville (regaining his balance): Forty-fourth floor, and it's very --

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Moses (V.O.): And that’s the story of how Norville Barnes climbed away up to the forty-fourth floor of the Hudsucker Building...

    Fiction book (1994)

  • This is the forty-fourth time we have held this event in our town.

Synonyms

44th
vsforty-fourth
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A place in a list or order that comes after forty-three

is written in words to name the same position in sequence

How Late

hundredth
7 1.0
fiftieth
7 1.0
forty-fourth
1 1.0
twenty-fifth
5 1.0
tenth
100 1.0
first
7 1.0

Surface Forms

forty-fourth positive

Morphology

forty-fourth = forty + four (transparent) = forty + four + th

The ordinal is formed regularly by adding the ordinal suffix '-th' to the compound numeral 'forty-four', a process predictable to learners.

Etymology

The word forty-fourth is a position word made from forty ('40') and fourth, which comes from four ('4'). That's why forty-fourth means the place that 'comes after forty-three others' or 'number 44'.