forty
四十,四十个,四十年,四十岁
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Definitions
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plural for·ties.
- : 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.
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- : amounting to 40 in number.
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Examples
Forty minutes later he says, ‘I think she may have chest injuries now.’
I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.
Almost forty years later, it seems unlikely this will ever be the case.
Forty-two years after its debut, The Godfather casts a long shadow over American cinema.
We were on it for forty minutes of the film, a considerable part of our schedule.
Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.
It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.
After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.
It was Wednesday night; over forty men sat down to the house-dinner at the Pandemonium Club.
The moon rose on a terrified mob trudging or riding the forty miles of road between Meerut and the Mogul capital.