fortieth
adjective
next after the thirty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 40.
fortieths
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pluralof fortieth.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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On one fortieth of the shares much higher interest was to be paid than on the other thirty-nine fortieths.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
It will hardly be said to reach us, the book with forty-man power in it, until it has been broken up into fortieths of itself.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
