Wiktionary
n. (context fractional English) One of forty-nine equal parts of a whole. num. (context ordinal English) The ordinal form of the number forty-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 49 of a sequence.
WordNet
adj. the ordinal number of forty-nine in counting order [syn: 49th]
Usage examples of "forty-ninth".
Finally he says he will take her to his own home and let her sleep there while he is deciding what is to be done about her, so Sorrowful takes Marky in his arms and lugs her over to a fleabag in West Forty-ninth Street where he has a room for many years, and afterward a bellhop tells me Sorrowful sits up all night watching her while she is sleeping.
He is maybe sixty years old, give or take a couple of years, and for as long as I can remember he is running a handbook over in Forty-ninth Street next door to a chop-suey joint.
As she trod back down East Forty-ninth Street, wagging the doggie bag in the frigid ebony air (the added weight of the dessert spoon going unnoticed), Ellen Cherry was deciding that since she was forsaking her personal artisthood, she must also forsake art over all.
There were as many art galleries on East Fifty-seventh as there were sushi bars on East Forty-ninth, but she tried not to notice.
The upper portion overlooked the whole floodwall and it was from this location that the Forty-Ninth and Sixtieth Infantry Division commanders would maneuver their troops.
If he came from south of the forty-ninth parallel, he had to be an enemy.
Not until 1818 had a firm boundary been established between the United States and Canada along the forty-ninth parallel from the Rainy Lake to the Rockies.
Army has constructed temporary shelter for you in the warmer states below the forty-ninth parallel.
This is a very common sight in side streets such as West Forty-ninth on nice days, and by no means unpleasant, if you like Mamas and their young.
It vinegared the mobile TV units that were beginning to vie for parking spaces near the corner of Forty-ninth Street.