forty-five
noun
a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
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forty-five
American
[fawr-tee-fahyv]
/ ˈfɔr tiˈfaɪv /
noun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 45 or XLV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
forty-five
1
British
noun
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a gramophone record played at 45 revolutions per minute
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a pistol having .45 calibre
Forty-Five
2
British
noun
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He describes “Pepperpot City” as “an impressionistic journey . . . condensing my more than forty-five years of exploring Philadelphia’s encyclopedic culinary history.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
For forty-five minutes he took questions from Russian journalists and came across as combative, confident of victory and energised.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
By the time the plot arrives at the point where it gets to be an actual story, instead of a forty-five minute flashback sequence, the credits start rolling.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025
And Hentoff got The New Yorker to devote a whole forty-five pages of print to Marie, and later Hentoff expanded those pages into a full biography.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 6, 2023
And since the new house was forty-five minutes farther away from Bannon’s than our old one, getting to and from gymnastics practice was going to be more complicated.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
"It's exciting for us when we're making music to hear something that we possibly haven't heard before," they explained to The Forty-Five.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
A number of smaller players also made the list, like Three Forty-Five Spectrum, which you can view on Light Reading’s site.
From The Verge ● Jan. 15, 2022
The "Forty-Five" itself would have provided enough material to fill a volume of double the size.
From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by James Pringle Thomson
The Conspirators was published in volume 6, along with The Forty-Five Guardsmen and The Regent's Daughter, both of which are also available from Project Gutenberg.
From The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas père
In the feudal days of Japan, so recently past, the position of the samurai was exactly the same as the clansmen of a Highland chief, say at the time of the "Forty-Five."
From Peeps at Many Lands: Japan by John Finnemore
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