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Added 10 October 2026

forty-ninth

/ˌfɔːti ˈnaɪnθ/ adjective

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The ordinal form of the number forty-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 49 of a sequence.
The answer appears on the forty-ninth page of the book.

noun

One of forty-nine equal parts of a whole.
A forty-ninth of 980 is 20.

Origin

From forty-nine + -th (ordinal suffix).

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