FORTY-EIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forty-eight mean? 

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

1. being eight more than forty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORTY-EIGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being eight more than forty

Synonyms:

48; forty-eight; xlviii

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

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

(Forty Nine, NCI Thesaurus)

My brother got me inside forty-eight hours, and through no fault of mine.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Mr. Woodhouse considered eight persons at dinner together as the utmost that his nerves could bear—and here would be a ninth—and Emma apprehended that it would be a ninth very much out of humour at not being able to come even to Hartfield for forty-eight hours without falling in with a dinner-party.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In practice, the term mainly refers to people originated from forty-eight sub-Saharan Africa nations; and excudes individuals from North Africa countries, e.g. such as Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia with Arab and Berber ethnicity.

(African, NCI Thesaurus)

I had had no sleep for forty-eight hours.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)