FORTY Definition & Meaning

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forty

[fawr-tee]

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noun

plural

forties

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.

forty

/ ˈ��ɔː��ɪ /

noun

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four See also number
a numeral, 40, XL, etc, representing this number
something representing, represented by, or consisting of 40 units

determiner

1. amounting to forty
  forty thieves
2. ( as pronoun )
  there were forty in the herd

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of forty¹

before 950; Middle English fourti, Old English ��ŧ�Ƿɱ��پ�� (cognate with Old Frisian fiuwertich, Old High German fiorzug, German vierzig ). See four, -ty ¹

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of forty¹

Old English ��ŧ�Ƿɱ��پ��

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As "The Goonies" turns forty, its message lands with renewed urgency.

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I had been making predictable salads — kale, romaine, a grudging nod to cabbage — and the book, which catalogs more than forty varieties of greens, seemed like the sort of thing that might inspire transformation.

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Hussein was born in Pakistan and moved here forty years ago.

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Elsewhere, a woman in her forties is reported to have died in Valencia, though there is no clear consensus in Spanish media on the cause of her death.

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That would mean a return to the "spheres of interest" system that prevailed for forty years after the Second World War.

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Fort Worth forty-eight

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