forty-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 41 or XLI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2010
He was forty by birth certificate and forty by appearance—but it was a healthy, well-nourished good-natured appearance of forty; one that automatically drew the teeth of the bromide about “looking one’s age.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
We measured several of these trees, and found one that was forty one feet five inches in circumference.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
What he will be at forty, one can not surmise.”
From The Key to Yesterday by Buck, Charles Neville
So Sister Trickey steps upon the platform, A woman nearing forty, one would say.
From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee
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