Forty

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The cardinal number equal to 4 × 10.
  • n. A decade or the numbers from 40 to 49: They stopped smoking in their forties. At night the temperature fell into the forties.
  • n. The decade from 40 to 49 in a century.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one.
  • n. A 40 ounce bottle of beer.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.
  • n. The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.
  • n. A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Four times ten; ten more than thirty, or one more than thirty-nine: a cardinal numeral.
  • The sum of four tens, or of thirty-nine and one.
  • A symbol representing this number, as 40, XL, or xl.
  • The name (with qualifying terms) of two appellate civil tribunals and a criminal court in the Venetian republic.
  • A collective designation of the members of the French Academy, forty in number. Also called the Forty Immortals.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. being ten more than thirty
  • n. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four
  • Equivalent
    cardinal   
    Hypernym
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    Cross Reference
    half forty    the roaring forties    the forty    thirty    30    41    forty-one    fifty    thirty-nine    venti   
    Synonym
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    Rhyme
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    corti    shorty    sortie    sporty   
    Same Context
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    thirty    seventy    sixty    ninety    eighty    '90s    '80s    '70s    teens    heavyset