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
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
That left me with hardly enough time to make breakfast and get myself dressed before driving to morning gym practice forty-five minutes away.
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 "Cambuslang Wark" "Statistical Account of Scotland" 81 The "Forty-Five": 1745.
From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by James Pringle Thomson
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 Henry Fielding
The Regent's Daughter was published in volume 6, along with The Forty-Five Guardsmen and The Conspirators, both of which are also available from Project Gutenberg.
From The Regent's Daughter by Alexandre Dumas père
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