forty-five

American  

[fawr-tee-fahyv] / ˈfɔr tiˈfaɪv /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.

2. a symbol for this number, as 45 or XLV.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 45 in number.

forty-five ¹ British  

noun

1. a gramophone record played at 45 revolutions per minute

2. a pistol having .45 calibre

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Forty-Five ² British  

noun

1. history another name for Jacobite Rebellion

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Example Sentences

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

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

That single, thirteen-letter spirit word was translated by a medium’s assistant into a paragraph containing forty-five words of English!

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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