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Forty
//ˈfɔːti// adj, noun, num, slang
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
Adjective
- 1 being ten more than thirty wordnet
Noun
- 1 A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces. US, slang
"It's on, wrap my lips around the forty / And when it comes to getting another stogie […] Grab your forty, let's get keyed"
- 2 the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four wordnet
Numeral
- 1 The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.
"'Tis forty years this very day, Since you and I, old girl, were married."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty.
Etymology 2
From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty.
Etymology 3
From fort + -y.
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