forty-five

[ fawr-tee-fahyv ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
2. a symbol for this number, as 45 or XLV.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 45 in number.

forty-five

¹

noun

1. a gramophone record played at 45 revolutions per minute
2. a pistol having .45 calibre

Forty-Five

²

noun

1. the Forty-Five
   history another name for Jacobite Rebellion

Example Sentences

“And you know how stupid I am? When I saw the police coming up to the house, I thought they were going to arrest the two of them. For about forty-five seconds I was happy.”

From Literature

A bus crash has killed forty-five people in South Africa's north-eastern Limpopo province.

From BBC

To quote section thirty-two, line forty-five of the document you both signed, ‘Once a child has been told about his whatnot upbringing, no further contact with the whatnots he was raised with shall be allowed.’

From Literature

"I went to the bathroom at six forty-five this morning. When I came back, the doll was on the windowsill."

From Literature

Security forces say they broke up 764 criminal groups, seized 5,300 firearms and arrested 39,000 people nationally in the first half of the year, while forty-five alleged criminals were killed by police.

From Reuters

Related Words

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