forty-two

American  

[fawr-tee-too] / ˈfɔr tiˈtu /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 40 plus 2.

2. a symbol for this number, as 42 or XLII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

4. a game for two persons or two partnerships played with dominoes but based upon the rules for all fours.

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adjective

1. amounting to 42 in number.

Example Sentences

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forty-two

“Tragedy: forty-two people, among those thirty women, eight children and four men, died when a boat capsized off the coast of Dakhla,” tweeted Helena Maleno of Caminando Fronteras, which monitors migratory flows.

From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2021

His first clue is that six less than twice his number is between four and forty-two.

From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020

Aflalo, who’s now forty-two, once told the Times that she wanted to combine “altruism and narcissism.”

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019

It was not a single structure but a thirty-four-million-dollar campus, built in the nineteen-eighties and spread across forty-two acres in a leafy, white neighborhood ten miles west of downtown Houston.

From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019

I’m not lying: I added another forty-two squat thrusts before Coach Reed called time.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt