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Definition of Forty-nine
1. Adjective. Being nine more than forty.
Definition of Forty-nine
1. Number. The cardinal number immediately following forty-eight and preceding fifty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forty-nine
Literary usage of Forty-nine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1902)
"The numbers from forty-one to forty-nine are just the same in their relations
... forty-nine is just as much higher than thirty-nine as forty is higher than ..."
2. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax (1918)
"THE FOOLS OF forty-nine WHEN gold was found in forty-eight the people thought 'twas
gas, And some were fools enough to think the lumps were only ..."
3. Journal by California Legislature. Assembly, California, United States Congress Senate, Legislature (1912)
"... one hundred forty-seven, one hundred forty-eight, one hundred forty-nine, one
hundred fifty-one, one hundred fifty-three, one hundred fifty-four, ..."
4. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"For all in his bloom he went up the Flume In the Days of 'Forty-Nine. ...
Saying "There goes Tom Moore, a Bummer, sure, From the Days of "Forty-Nine. ..."