forty-eight
Synonyms
  • Arabic numerals: 48
  • Roman numerals: XLVIII
Translations
  • French: quarante-huit
  • German: achtundvierzig
  • Italian: quarantotto
  • Portuguese: quarenta e oito
  • Russian: со́рок во́семь
  • Spanish: cuarenta y ocho
Noun

forty-eight (plural forty-eights)

  1. (US, military) A period of 48 hours' leave, i.e. two days.
    • 1919, Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy
      They had their ten-day leaves and regular forty-eights from behind the nets of Bantry Bay and Scapa Flow […]



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