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

Aunt Mabel could make that much in forty-five minutes, but she was an expert.

From Literature

Despite turning off my light forty-five minutes ago, I’m still awake.

From Literature

But she combined Spelling School with geography and split us into teams to name all forty-five state capitals and the territorial capitals and spell them.

From Literature

He lingers a few feet away from me until Quinn screams, “Jonah! Free swim is over in forty-five minutes!”

From Literature

When she recognizes a village, “where my father lost our red Shorthorn in a game of forty-five,” we suspect that money is short and her father unreliable.

From The Wall Street Journal

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