Meanings
numeral
- The cardinal number immediately following forty-seven and preceding forty-nine.
nounforty-eight (plural forty-eights)
plural forty-eights
- USgovernmentA period of 48 hours' leave, i.e. two days.
They had their ten-day leaves and regular forty-eights from behind the nets of Bantry Bay and Scapa Flow […]
1919, Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy
Synonyms & antonyms
numeralThe cardinal number immediately following forty-seven and preceding forty-nine.
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Translations
Afrikaans agt-en-veertig
- agt-en-veertig48
Arabic ثَمَانِيَة وَأَرْبَعُون
- ثَمَانِيَة وَأَرْبَعُون (ṯamāniya wa-ʔarbaʕūn)48
Basque berrogeita zortzi
- berrogeita zortzi48
Bengali আটচল্লিশ
- আটচল্লিশ (aṭocolliś)48
Catalan quaranta-vuit, quaranta-huit
- quaranta-vuit48
- quaranta-huit48
Chinese Cantonese 四十八
- 四十八 (sei³ sap⁶ baat³)48
Chinese Mandarin 四十八
- 四十八 (sìshíbā)48
Danish otteogfyrre
- otteogfyrre48
Dutch achtenveertig
- achtenveertig48
Esperanto kvardek ok
- kvardek ok48
Estonian nelikümmend kaheksa
- nelikümmend kaheksa48
Finnish neljäkymmentäkahdeksan
- neljäkymmentäkahdeksan48
French quarante-huit
- quarante-huit48
German achtundvierzig
- achtundvierzig48
Greek σαράντα οκτώ
- σαράντα οκτώ (saránta októ)48
Hebrew ארבעים־ושמנה
- ארבעים־ושמנה (arbaím və-shmoná)48
Hindi अड़तालीस
- अड़तालीस (aṛtālīs)48
Hungarian negyvennyolc
- negyvennyolc48
Icelandic fjörutíu og átta
- fjörutíu og átta48
Italian quarantotto
- quarantotto48
Japanese 四十八
- 四十八 (shijūhachi)48
Korean 마흔여덟, 사십팔
- 마흔여덟 (maheunyeodeol)48
- 사십팔 (sasip'pal)48
Latin duodequinquaginta
- duodequinquaginta48
Lithuanian keturiasdešimt aštuoni
- keturiasdešimt aštuoni48
Malay empat puluh lapan
- empat puluh lapan48
Persian چِهِل و هَشت
- چِهِل و هَشت (čehel-o-hašt)48
Polish czterdzieści osiem
- czterdzieści osiem48
Portuguese quarenta e oito
- quarenta e oito48
Punjabi ਅਠਤਾਲ਼ੀ
- ਅਠਤਾਲ਼ੀ (aṭhatāḷī)48
Russian со́рок во́семь
- со́рок во́семь (sórok vósemʹ)48
Spanish cuarenta y ocho
- cuarenta y ocho48
Swahili arobaini na nane
- arobaini na nane48
Swedish fyrtioåtta
- fyrtioåtta48
Thai สี่สิบแปด
- สี่สิบแปด (sìi-sìp-bpɛ̀ɛt)48
Turkish kırk sekiz
- kırk sekiz48
Ukrainian со́рок ві́сім
- со́рок ві́сім (sórok vísim)48
Urdu اڑتالیس
- اڑتالیس (aṛtālīs)48
Welsh pedwar deg wyth, wyth a deugain
- pedwar deg wyth48
- wyth a deugain48
Cite this entry
APA
forty-eight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forty-eight
MLA
“forty-eight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forty-eight. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “forty-eight,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forty-eight.
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