forty-ninth
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- adjective
- /ˈfɔrtiˌnaɪnθ/
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cuadragésimo noveno
- He celebrated his forty-ninth birthday with a big party.
- forty-ninth birthday
Examples
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She placed forty-ninth in the race out of over a hundred competitors.
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As previously stated, Louisiana was ranked forty-ninth out of fifty states in healthcare outcomes before Katrina.
Academic text (2006) -
And why, unlike her grandfather, did she prefer to celebrate it on the fiftieth rather than on the forty-ninth anniversary of her accession?
Academic text (1997) -
They noted sadly that Louisiana had placed forty-ninth out of fifty states in measures of the quality of healthcare before Katrina.
Academic text (2006) -
This year marks the forty-ninth anniversary of our friendship.
Synonyms
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The position that comes after forty-eight and before fifty
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Morphology
forty-ninth = forty-nine (transparent) = forty + nine + th
The ordinal is formed regularly from the cardinal 'forty-nine' by adding the ordinal suffix '-th', a standard and transparent process.
Etymology
Forty-ninth comes from forty-nine: forty means 'four tens' and that is just four plus ten, while ninth comes from nine. So forty-ninth means 'the one in position 49', the item after the forty-eighth.