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forty

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈfɔːti/
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/ˈfɔːti/ · [ˈfoːtɪj] · /ˈfɔɹti/ · [ˈfɔɹɾi] · [ˈfɑɹɾij] · /ˈfɔɾte/ · /-tɪ/ · /-ti/ · /fɒ(r).ʈi/

Definition of forty

3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

num

  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.”
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num

  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.”

noun

  1. (US, slang)A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces.
    “It's on, wrap my lips around the forty / And when it comes to getting another stogie […] Grab your forty, let's get keyed”

adj

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr Proto-Germanic *fedwōr Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz Old English fēowertiġ Middle English fourti English forty From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty.

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