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
I certainly do not find myself, at forty, one whit nearer misanthropy than I was at sixteen.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
What he will be at forty, one can not surmise.”
From The Key to Yesterday by Buck, Charles Neville
The Secretary himself was standing in the darkest corner—a thin, dark, rather small man of about forty, one who seemed to be of a nervous temperament ruled by a strong will.
From Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
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