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forty
[ fawr-tee ]
noun
- a cardinal number, ten times four.
- a symbol for this number, as 40 or XL or XXXX.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- forties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 40 through 49, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature:
His office is in the West Forties. Her parents are in their forties. The temperature will be in the forties.
adjective
- amounting to 40 in number.
forty
/ ˈfɔːtɪ /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four See also number
- a numeral, 40, XL, etc, representing this number
- something representing, represented by, or consisting of 40 units
determiner
- amounting to forty
forty thieves
- ( as pronoun )
there were forty in the herd
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of forty1
Example Sentences
It was successfully landed in the Indian Ocean around forty minutes later.
Federal prosecutors say they are still “copying over forty devices and the other five iCloud reports belonging to the defendant, which is expected to take several days due to the volume of the materials.”
It isn’t right to attribute Trump’s rise solely to these motivations; it’s been going on for forty years.
Christina Broom only began to experiment with photography in her forties, using a box camera.
“Thirty to forty percent of the people sleeping at the encampment were Jews, who make up about 10% of the students at Occidental College.”
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