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forty-sixth

forty-sixth

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Number forty-six in a list
  • adjective
  • /ˈfɔrti sɪksθ/
: cuadragésimo sexto
  • The race was won by the athlete who finished in forty-sixth place.
  • the forty-sixth birthday

Examples

  • She was the forty-sixth person to sign up for the workshop.

  • This is for a man who died just after his forty-sixth birthday.

    Academic text (1991)

  • After Oklahoma had become the forty-sixth state in 1907, the Cherokee Nation's common schools had been absorbed into the Oklahoma state system.

    Academic text (1991)

  • At its forty-sixth session in 1994, the commission proceeded to adopt a draft statute for an international criminal court (Akhavan 1995, Bassiouni 1995).

    Academic text (1999)

  • During the celebration, they honored the forty-sixth anniversary of their founding.

Synonyms

46th
vsforty-sixth
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Number forty-six in a list

is written in full words rather than using digits

Surface Forms

forty-sixth positive

Morphology

forty-sixth = forty-six (transparent) = forty + six + th

Formed by the regular ordinal suffix '-th' attached to the numeral 'forty-six', a standard and predictable derivation.

Etymology

Forty-sixth is simply the number forty combined with sixth, using the -th ending that turns a number into an order. So, forty-sixth means 'number 46 in a sequence' or 'coming after the forty-fifth'.