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

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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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�y��vlog 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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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of forty¹

Old English ��ŧ�Ƿɱ��پ��

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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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As cultural critic and educator Neil Postman famously warned forty years ago, the American people were and are amusing themselves to death.

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The self-chosen few will ride out the forty days and forty nights.

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The three, all in their late thirties or early forties, said they had fought in Burkina Faso multiple times since 2018.

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The Eaton and Palisades fires together destroyed at least six schools and close to forty daycare centers.

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