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/fɔɹtɪ ɛɪːt/ · numeral
The cardinal number immediately following forty-seven and preceding forty-nine..
They had their ten-day leaves and regular forty-eights from behind the nets of Bantry Bay and Scapa Flow […]
Use forty-eight when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Forty-eight means The cardinal number immediately following forty-seven and preceding forty-nine..
Common synonyms include 48, XLVIII.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They had their ten-day leaves and regular forty-eights from behind the nets of Bantry Bay and Scapa Flow […]
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