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forty-nine

/fawr-tee-nahyn/US // ˈfɔr tiˈnaɪn //

四十九,第四十九次,第四十九届,四十九个

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 49 or XLIX.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 49 in number.

Examples

  • This was nine fewer than what he needed just two years ago when 426 members of the House voted.

  • The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.

  • Forty minutes later he says, ‘I think she may have chest injuries now.’

  • I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.

  • Denied parole nine straight times, he insists he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.

  • In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.

  • Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.

  • It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.

  • After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.

  • It was Wednesday night; over forty men sat down to the house-dinner at the Pandemonium Club.