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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"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 an interview for a documentary on him that has yet to be released, Belzer recalled once taking an hour and forty-five minutes to bring up the next comic.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
The brochure claimed that "King Corn and King Cotton grow side by side, yielding in excess of forty-five bushels of corn and a bale of cotton per acre."
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2021
The strike against wage cuts swept west along the rails through Chicago, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, to San Francisco—100,000 workers halting commerce for forty-five days.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
"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 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 Dumas père, Alexandre
The result is a most enjoyable pot pourri of Roman mythology and eighteenth century social customs, combined with some of the patriotism left over from Fielding's anti-Jacobinism during the Forty-Five.
From The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love by Fielding, Henry
It was that of Revol, the King's secretary, whom at first De Nambre, one of the Forty-Five on guard at the door, would not permit to pass.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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