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
Example Sentences
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By the time the plot arrives at the point where it gets to be an actual story, instead of a forty-five minute flashback sequence, the credits start rolling.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 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
In places like Papua New Guinea and Australia, there is evidence of settlements at least forty-five thousand years old.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
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 reality, he was forty-five and from Liverpool.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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