forty-third

American  

[fawr-tee-thurd] / ˈfɔr tiˈθɜrd /

adjective

1. next after the forty-second; being the ordinal number for 43.

2. being one of 43 equal parts.

---

noun

1. a forty-third part, especially of one (1/43).

2. the forty-third member of a series.

Example Sentences

The President was so disciplined on the occasion of the republic’s two hundred and forty-third birthday that Vox called his speech “inoffensive.”

From The New Yorker

This year, on the two hundred and forty-third birthday of our founding document, not so much.

From The New Yorker

It happened to be his forty-third birthday; he was reading Saul Bellow’s “Henderson the Rain King” and smoking Kent cigarettes.

From The New Yorker

He shouted loudest after the second goal of the game, which came during the forty-third minute and was a real and undeniable beauty, no matter how lacklustre the opposition.

From The New Yorker

The agency scrambled to keep up with the production miracle that was the American aircraft industry, which had gone from the country’s forty-third largest industry in 1938 to the worlds number one by 1943.

From Literature