forty-ninth

forty-ninth

1. The ordinal form of the number forty-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 49 of a sequence.

   The answer appears on the forty-ninth page of the book.

   She finished forty-ninth in the race.

• English ordinal numbers may function as either an adjective or as a noun, and almost never appear in the plural.

• forty-ninth parallel

• 49th, 49^th

forty-ninth (plural forty-ninths)

1. One of forty-nine equal parts of a whole.

   A forty-ninth of 980 is 20.