FORTY-NINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forty-nine mean? 

• FORTY-NINE (adjective)
  The adjective FORTY-NINE has 1 sense:

1. being nine more than forty

  Familiarity information: FORTY-NINE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORTY-NINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being nine more than forty

Synonyms:

49; forty-nine; il

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

I said I believed it happened in the year sixteen hundred and forty-nine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A natural number greater than forty-nine and less than fifty-one and the quantity that it denotes.

(Fifty, NCI Thesaurus)

On the contrary, said Holmes, out of my last fifty-three cases my name has only appeared in four, and the police have had all the credit in forty-nine.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The first time he came,” said Mr. Dick, “was—let me see—sixteen hundred and forty-nine was the date of King Charles's execution. I think you said sixteen hundred and forty-nine?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He considered that it might be done in one thousand six hundred and forty-nine years, counting from the Doctor's last, or sixty-second, birthday.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)