forty-eight
[
fawr
-tee-
eyt
]
/ˈfɔr tiˈeɪt/
noun
1.
a cardinal number, 40 plus 8.
2.
a symbol for this number, as 48 or XLVIII.
3.
a set of this many persons or things.
4.
the forty-eight,
the 48 contiguous states of the U.S.
adjective
5.
amounting to 48 in number.
Examples from the web for
forty-eight
Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of
forty-eight
thousand pins in a day.
The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than
forty-eight
hours.
The operating crews began a
forty-eight
-hour test at full power to obtain important physics information.
forty-eight
consecutive years of steady employment in television and film, while preserving a rich family life.
He liked the precision of that-all his friends were
forty-eight
.
The reading is expected to take about
forty-eight
hours.
forty-eight
of the children who died, or about two-thirds of the total, were infants and toddlers.
Life expectancy in the typical poor country has risen from
forty-eight
years to sixty-eight years over the past four decades.
She shows up in the last two acts to speak only
forty-eight
lines.
Slang definitions & phrases for
forty-eight
forty-eight
noun
A weekend pass
(WWII Navy)