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[ fawr -tee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈfɔr ti / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun, plural for·ties. 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.
Origin of forty before 950; Middle English fourti, Old English fēowertig (cognate with Old Frisian fiuwertich, Old High German fiorzug, German vierzig ). See four, -ty1
Words nearby forty Fort Walton Beach, Fort Wayne, Fort William, for two cents, Fort Worth, forty , forty-eight, forty-eighth, forty-eightmo, forty-fifth, forty-first
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And there is the cave under the rock where Moses dwelt, when he fasted forty days and forty nights.
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The position was an awkward one, and Winthrope weighed thirty or forty pounds more than Miss Leslie.
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His childhood and his youth may be considered from his birth till forty years of age.
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British Dictionary definitions for forty noun plural -ties the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four See also number (def. 1)
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 Origin for forty Old English fēowertig
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Words related to forty quadragenarian, quadragesimal