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Definition of Forty-eighth
1. Adjective. The ordinal number of forty-eight in counting order.
Definition of Forty-eighth
1. Numeral. (ordinal) The ordinal form of the number forty-eight, describing a person or thing in position number 48 of a sequence. ¹
2. Noun. (fractional) One of forty-eight equal parts of a whole. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Forty-eighth
Literary usage of Forty-eighth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"The forty-eighth and Forty-second Virginia had been, during the day, on picket
on the Blackburn's Ford and Union Mill road. Marching by the Sudley road, ..."
2. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers by Whitelaw Reid (1868)
"The Forty-Eighth lost about one-third of its members in this battle. ... In the
attack upon Corinth, the Forty-Eighth was among the first organized troops ..."
3. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1882)
"The Council have the honour to submit their forty-eighth annual report. Tho result
compares as follows with the average of the previous ten years :— Since ..."
4. Forty Years of Active Service: Being Some History of the War Between the by Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (1904)
"I got it, and was seated in the forty-eighth Congress, just in time to cast my
... In the forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses I was a member of the ..."
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