forty-five

[fawr-tee-fahyv]

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.

adjective

1. amounting to 45 in number.

forty-five

¹

noun

1. a gramophone record played at 45 revolutions per minute

2. a pistol having .45 calibre

Forty-Five

²

noun

1. history another name for Jacobite Rebellion

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

Thus, state and local government employment basically kept up with forty-five percent population growth over those years, while federal employment barely grew at all.

From Salon

“The kids are all either at day care or after-school programs for another forty-five minutes.”

From Literature

A bus crash has killed forty-five people in South Africa's north-eastern Limpopo province.

From BBC

To quote section thirty-two, line forty-five of the document you both signed, ‘Once a child has been told about his whatnot upbringing, no further contact with the whatnots he was raised with shall be allowed.’

From Literature

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