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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number forty-eight, describing a person or thing in position number 48 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of forty-eight equal parts of a whole.

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  • adjective the ordinal number of forty-eight in counting order

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Examples

  • She had just begun her forty-eighth notebook at the time of her death.

    In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010

  • "Next year will be one forty-eighth of your total age, and the year after that will be one forty-ninth."

    Beard 2010

  • He died, back home in Edenton, in October 1799, soon after his forty-eighth birthday.3

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • I was just about to have my forty-eighth birthday and had been a Catholic nun for more than two decades.

    The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010

  • He died, back home in Edenton, in October 1799, soon after his forty-eighth birthday.3

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • He died, back home in Edenton, in October 1799, soon after his forty-eighth birthday.3

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • I was just about to have my forty-eighth birthday and had been a Catholic nun for more than two decades.

    The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010

  • I was just about to have my forty-eighth birthday and had been a Catholic nun for more than two decades.

    The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010

  • It was my forty-eighth birthday on 1 April, and that was just like any other day too.

    The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010

  • Legend claimed that Charlemagne had used the spear as his secret talisman to win more than forty battles, until the greatest of all European emperors dropped the spear on the battlefield during his forty-eighth skirmish.

    The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010

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