FORTY-EIGHTH


Meaning of FORTY-EIGHTH in English

/fawr"tee aytth", -ayth"/ , adj.

1. next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.

2. being one of 48 equal parts.

n.

3. a forty-eighth part, esp. of one ( 1 / 48 ).

4. the forty-eighth member of a series.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .