forty-eighth
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- adjective
- /ˌfɔrtiˈeɪθ/
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cuadragésimo octavo
- Then on the forty-eighth day, when I went to check the screened enclosure in the room, I found a large fly buzzing around inside.
Examples
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His forty-eighth birthday had just passed.
Academic text (1991) -
We are especially proud that 1995 marked Lincoln's forty-eighth consecutive year of operating without a single layoff.
Academic text (1996) -
The sixteenth pedestrian we passed we marked as a victim; then the thirty-second, then the forty-eighth, etc.
Academic text (2007) -
And Desiderio Longotoma would ask the same questions about the thirty-second, the forty-eighth, etc.
Academic text (2007) -
The sum total we split into four equal parts to be divided among the sixteenth, thirty-second, forty-eighth, and sixty-fourth pedestrians.
Academic text (2007) -
The committee decided to celebrate her forty-eighth year of service at the company.
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They planned to host a grand party for his forty-eighth birthday next week.
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At forty-eight, she felt more accomplished than ever with her career.
Synonyms
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Number that comes after forty-seven and before forty-nine
Surface Forms
Morphology
forty-eighth = forty-eight (transparent) = forty + eight + th
The ordinal is formed regularly from the compound numeral 'forty-eight' by adding the ordinal suffix '-th' to the final element, a process familiar to learners.
Etymology
Forty-eighth comes from forty (literally 'four tens') plus eight with the ordinal ending 'th' to make 'eighth'. So it means 'the 48th', the one that comes after the forty-seventh.