Forty-two

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Adjective
  1. 1
    being two more than forty wordnet
Numeral
  1. 1
    Forty plus two; the cardinal number following forty-one and preceding forty-three.

    ""Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.""

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"In Togo, forty-two different languages are spoken."

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