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FORTY-FOURTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does forty-fourth mean?
• FORTY-FOURTH (adjective)
The adjective FORTY-FOURTH has 1 sense:
1. the ordinal number of forty-four in counting order
Familiarity information: FORTY-FOURTH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ordinal number of forty-four in counting order
Synonyms:
44th; forty-fourth
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples
We encountered it well up to the forty-fourth parallel, in a raw and stormy sea across which the wind harried the fog-banks in eternal flight.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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