forty-nine
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- numeral
- /ˈfɔrti naɪn/
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cuarenta y nueve
- The book was printed in an edition of forty-nine copies, making it very rare.
- forty-nine percent
- forty-nine cows
- forty-nine states
Examples
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My colleagues and I have put forty-nine people who were madly in love into a brain scanner (fMRI).
Academic text (2011) -
The Globe added that even today, only four of Bain's forty-nine partners are women.
Blog text (20) -
And here I am, at a story I noted down forty-nine years ago!
Fiction book (1994) -
Although there were only forty-nine respondents, all were public school music teachers, mostly in Florida.
Academic text (1990) -
Wisconsin was number forty-nine on his list, and he had Wyoming to go.
Fiction book (2001) -
All of the forty-nine completed surveys were usable for a return rate of 77%.
Academic text (1996) -
Forty-nine immigrant students in grades 3-7 from a total of 735 students participated in this study.
Academic text (2013) -
The world's forty-nine least-developed countries will see their numbers triple from 668 million to 1.86 billion.
Academic text (2002) -
By 2011, there were forty-nine countries participating in the NATO-led (but U.S.-commanded) International Security Assistance Force for Afghanistan.
Academic text (2011) -
He is fifty years old, but his sister is only forty-nine.
Synonyms
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A number that is nine more than forty and one less than fifty
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Etymology
The word forty-nine comes from joining forty and nine, and it literally means 'four tens plus nine'. So it is the number that is 'nine more than forty'.