Definition of "forty-eighth" [forty-eighth]

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

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• "I was just about to have my forty-eighth birthday and had been a Catholic nun for more than two decades."
• "It was my forty-eighth birthday on 1 April, and that was just like any other day too."
• "He died, back home in Edenton, in October 1799, soon after his forty-eighth birthday.3"