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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For forty-five minutes he took questions from Russian journalists and came across as combative, confident of victory and energised.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Thus, state and local government employment basically kept up with forty-five percent population growth over those years, while federal employment barely grew at all.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2025
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
In an interview for a documentary on him that has yet to be released, Belzer recalled once taking an hour and forty-five minutes to bring up the next comic.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
The officer led Blake into one of the only buildings standing, where "a big, burly man of about forty or forty-five with a pale complexion" greeted him in Russian.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
"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
There was no great personal bitterness in the Aberdeenshire Highlands as between clans or families who were on different sides in the "Forty-Five."
From The Black Colonel by James Milne
But for some reason, probably because Scotland was unpopular after the Forty-Five, Smollett merely describes the woes, ill usage, and retaliations of Roderick.
From Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang
Besides the locale of “La Tulipe Noire,” Dumas takes the action of “The Forty-Five Guardsmen” into the Netherlands.
From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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