forty-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 41 or XLI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2010
He was forty by birth certificate and forty by appearance—but it was a healthy, well-nourished good-natured appearance of forty; one that automatically drew the teeth of the bromide about “looking one’s age.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Pieces weigh twenty, forty, one hundred pounds; anything over, you hook up with a chain and let the overhead crane move it.
From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford
At forty, one has still a great part of youth before him—perhaps the richest and sweetest part.
From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean
You've been gone four hours, eleven minutes, and forty one seconds, but never mind about abstract theorizing.
From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
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