forty-fifth
[fawr-tee-fifth or, often, -fith]
- next after the forty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 45.
- being one of 45 equal parts.
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- a forty-fifth part, especially of one (1/45).
- the forty-fifth member of a series.
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Historical Examples
He died in his forty-fifth year, at the height of his power.
A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume IIMrs. Humphry Ward
The Forty-fifth Pennsylvania was on the left, its left on the river.
However, we can expect the change about the forty-fifth year.
The tree he had marked well, it was the forty-fifth along the road to Novawies.
Freaks of FanaticismSabine Baring-Gould
He died in Paris, in 1792, in the forty-fifth year of his age.
The American RevolutionJohn Fiske