Definitions
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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber forty-nine , describing a person or thing in position number 49 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
forty-nine equal parts of a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective the ordinal number of forty-nine in counting order
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Examples
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He did wonder why his new boss waited to show this final ruse in the Irish bar across forty-ninth street instead of in the gleaming new offices on the eleventh floor of the headquarters.
Paper House Walter Bjorkman 2011
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And when both men and women were combined it fell to forty-ninth.
Stephan A. Schwartz: Benjamin Franklin And a Modern American Portrait of Physical Health and Hunger Stephan A. Schwartz 2010
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In his habitual home on the forty-ninth parallel, sunlight was a pale grey-eyed thing.
Two Poets Carol Reid 2011
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And when both men and women were combined it fell to forty-ninth.
Stephan A. Schwartz: Benjamin Franklin And a Modern American Portrait of Physical Health and Hunger Stephan A. Schwartz 2010
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And when both men and women were combined it fell to forty-ninth.
Stephan A. Schwartz: Benjamin Franklin And a Modern American Portrait of Physical Health and Hunger Stephan A. Schwartz 2010
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He did wonder why his new boss waited to show this final ruse in the Irish bar across forty-ninth street instead of in the gleaming new offices on the eleventh floor of the headquarters.
Paper House Walter Bjorkman 2011
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He always attended, even in off years like his forty-ninth reunion.
Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010
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The umpire punches him out—but Mays finishes the game, and the Giants win on his forty-ninth homer of the season.
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
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Three medium-sized dome tents were set in place on the anchored ground tarps, looking like three gray igloos transplanted from the tundra of the forty-ninth state to the lush green open space of the fiftieth state.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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Three medium-sized dome tents were set in place on the anchored ground tarps, looking like three gray igloos transplanted from the tundra of the forty-ninth state to the lush green open space of the fiftieth state.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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