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FORTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of ten and four
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("forty" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being ten more than thirty
Synonyms:
40; forty; twoscore; xl
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
“Take myself. If I have known Barkis a year, to move to as he went by, I have known him forty years. But I can't go and say, “how is he?””
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But I have heard that your Company is to come with my forty Winchester rascals to Dax.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Three-forty is our train, and I fancy we should be back in Baker Street for dinner.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Better not move at all, better stay in London altogether than travel forty miles to get into a worse air.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Rushworth followed him to say, I come in three times, and have two-and-forty speeches.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I had him at my sword-point for forty minutes at Angelo’s.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir John Middleton was a good looking man about forty.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It lasted forty minutes, and at a quarter-past nine Mrs. Barclay returned home, having left Miss Morrison at her door as she passed.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He is a man of forty, married, with five children.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
