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forty-five

American  
[fawr-tee-fahyv] / ˈfɔr tiˈfaɪv /

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.

  2. a symbol for this number, as 45 or XLV.

  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 45 in number.

forty-five 1 British  

noun

  1. a gramophone record played at 45 revolutions per minute

  2. a pistol having .45 calibre

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Forty-Five 2 British  

noun

  1. history another name for Jacobite Rebellion

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

"One hundred and forty-five endless days and nights of yearning for our loved ones," Ronen Neutra said, addressing the crowd.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2024

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

In reality, he was forty-five and from Liverpool.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

"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

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

I sawed off a twenty-inch solid water oak log twelve times yesterday in Forty-Five Minutes.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

He lost a throne, but he won hearts, and, while poetry lives and romance endures, the Prince Charles of the Forty-Five has a crown more imperishable than gold.

From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford

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