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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During that same period, the total U.S. population increased over 104 million, or about forty-five percent.
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
The course is forty-five minutes away, but there’s no traffic at six a.m. on a summer Saturday, so we arrive exactly as early as I wanted to arrive.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
"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
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
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
Lieutenant Charles Stewart, engaged in the Rising of the Forty-Five, in Stewart of Appin's regiment, was severely wounded at Culloden.
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
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