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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"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
The brochure claimed that "King Corn and King Cotton grow side by side, yielding in excess of forty-five bushels of corn and a bale of cotton per acre."
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2021
At precisely three forty-five Mrs. Olinski locked the door to her house, got in her van, and drove to Sillington House.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
"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
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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