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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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
"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
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
“Two dollars,” I said to my mother at the stove, “two dollars and forty-five cents.”
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
"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 "Forty-Five" itself would have provided enough material to fill a volume of double the size.
From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by James Pringle Thomson
LACKINGTON, James.—Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life of James Lackington, the present Bookseller in Chiswell-street, Moorfields, London. Written by himself in forty-seven Letters to a Friend. With a triple Dedication . . .
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
In the rebellion of Forty-Five, this northern squire sided to serious purpose with Prince Charles and the Highlanders.
From I Say No by Wilkie Collins
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