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Definition of Forty
1. Adjective. Being ten more than thirty.
2. Noun. The cardinal number that is the product of ten and four.
Definition of Forty
1. a. Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.
2. n. The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.
Definition of Forty
1. Numeral. (cardinal) The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one. ¹
2. Noun. (slang) A 40 ounce bottle of beer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Forty
1. a number [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forty
Literary usage of Forty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"It was forty-five miles from the beginning of the desert, and twenty-three from
the end of it. We plowed and dragged and groped along, the whole livelong ..."
2. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"John Hay did as great work after forty as ever before, so did Mark Twain, and
both of them gained in intellectual strength and public honor to the very end. ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"This is precisely as the passage is given in all editions of all periods ; and
Warburton and Steevens speculated that " the humour of forty fancies" was a ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"In 1832 forty slips were in operation, and at the present time one is to be found
in nearly ... 179<>. art ed forty-one times, and became a stock piece. ..."
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