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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"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
I was busy for a good forty-five minutes before something important happened.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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