Forty-eight

//fɔɹtɪ ɛɪːt// noun, num

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    being eight more than forty wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A period of 48 hours' leave, i.e. two days. US

    "They had their ten-day leaves and regular forty-eights from behind the nets of Bantry Bay and Scapa Flow […]"

Numeral
  1. 1
    The cardinal number immediately following forty-seven and preceding forty-nine.

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