forty-third

American  

[fawr-tee-thurd] / ˈfɔr tiˈθɜrd /

adjective

1. next after the forty-second; being the ordinal number for 43.

2. being one of 43 equal parts.

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noun

1. a forty-third part, especially of one (1/43).

2. the forty-third member of a series.

Example Sentences

You may also remember me serving as the forty-third President of the United States.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2015

Bush received Florida’s electoral votes and, with a total of 271 votes in the Electoral College to Gore’s 266, became the forty-third president of the United States.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

These towers, which rose from the twenty-ninth  to the forty-third story, constituted from the beginning the hotel’s unique appeal to which the American journalist Ward Morehouse devoted an entire book.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2014

You need not hold any specific political opinion about the forty-third president of the United States to see how his words illustrate a fundamental strangeness of the “cult of optimism.”

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2012

Dies 1852, one month before his forty-third birthday.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri