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Definitions

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 […]"

Adjective

1. 1
   being eight more than forty wordnet

Numeral

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

Synonyms

All synonyms

4848xlviiixlviii

Example

More examples

"I have forty-eight years on my back."

Related phrases

forty-eighterforty-eightmo

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