forty-five

American  

[fawr-tee-fahyv] / ˈfɔr tiˈfaɪv /

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.

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adjective

1. amounting to 45 in number.

forty-five ¹ British  

noun

1. a gramophone record played at 45 revolutions per minute

2. a pistol having .45 calibre

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Forty-Five ² British  

noun

1. history another name for Jacobite Rebellion

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Example Sentences

Thus, state and local government employment basically kept up with forty-five percent population growth over those years, while federal employment barely grew at all.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2025

"One hundred and forty-five endless days and nights of yearning for our loved ones," Ronen Neutra said, addressing the crowd.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024

In places like Papua New Guinea and Australia, there is evidence of settlements at least forty-five thousand years old.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

And Hentoff got The New Yorker to devote a whole forty-five pages of print to Marie, and later Hentoff expanded those pages into a full biography.

From Scientific American • Apr. 6, 2023

She looks so proud that I add, “And it wasn’t just a storm—it was a category four hurricane with sustained winds of one hundred and forty-five miles per hour.”

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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