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Definition of Forty-five
1. Noun. A .45-caliber pistol.
2. Adjective. Being five more than forty.
Definition of Forty-five
1. Cardinal numeral. Cardinal number after ''forty-four'' and before ''forty-six''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forty-five
Literary usage of Forty-five
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (1897)
"and sometimes, in one sweep of an instant, described an arc of more than forty-five
degrees, bringing up with a sudden jerk ..."
2. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, United States Congress. Senate (1876)
"In lines?, 8 and 9, same page, the following, " pursuant to chapter one hundred
and forty five of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy- five. ..."
3. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)
"CHAPTER forty-five "WHEN Tamb' Itam, paddling madly, came into the town-reach,
the women, thronging the platforms before the houses, were looking out for ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"... the number of members being stated to be forty-five. • Boon after, with his
wife and children,*took possession of the official residence of the society. ..."
5. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"... JM Kuester, two dollars; JF Luhme and Company, three hundred and ninety-one
dollars and five cents ; Linton and Company, forty-five dollars ; AM ..."
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