forty-niners

for·ty-nin·er

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [fawr-tee-nahy-ner]
- /ˌfɔr tiˈnaɪ nər/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [fawr-tee-nahy-ner]
- /ˌfɔr tiˈnaɪ nər/

Definitions of forty-niners word

noun forty-niners a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush. 1
noun forty-niners plural of forty-niner. 0

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Origin of forty-niners

First appearance:

before 1850

One of the 32% newest English words

An Americanism dating back to 1850-55

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Parts of speech for Forty-niners

noun

adjective

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adverb

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preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

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forty-niners popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 31% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data about 51% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

Synonyms for forty-niners

noun forty-niners

bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
leech — Margaret, 1893–1974, U.S. historian, novelist, and biographer.
parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
sponge — any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
user — the exercise of a right to the enjoyment of property.

All 8 Synonyms of forty-niners