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
And as a man gets older, as he begins to persuade himself that at forty one has scarce reached the prime of life—— The storm was coming on in earnest.
From Born in Exile by Gissing, George
At forty one can still look forward, and I put the past behind me and made plans for the future.
From The Wonder by Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)
The second lot consisting of forty one head, left Constantinople on the 6th of October, 1861, and arrived at Boston on the 25th of November with the loss of only one on the voyage.
From Practical Angora Goat Raising by
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