Forty-niner

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of 49er (in various senses) alt-of, alternative

    "Struck in 1925 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of California's statehood, the obverse of the coin shows a forty-niner panning for gold; the reverse of the coin shows an impressive grizzly bear."

  2. 2
    a miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849 wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
argonaut

Example

More examples

"Struck in 1925 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of California's statehood, the obverse of the coin shows a forty-niner panning for gold; the reverse of the coin shows an impressive grizzly bear."

More for "forty-niner"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.