forty-three
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 3.
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a symbol for this number, as 43 or XLIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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In 1634, William Wood noted the abundance of turkeys in his book “New Englands Prospect,” writing that “sometimes there will be forty, three score, and a hundred in a flocke, sometimes more and sometimes lesse.”
From National Geographic • Nov. 20, 2023
Ms. Mah has captured the beauty, exhaustion, excitement and human bonding of the harvest season that I have been lucky to participate in for the last forty three years in Mendocino's Anderson Valley.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2016
He was a man of forty three or four, stoutly and strongly built, and inclined to be portly.
From Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Above forty, three different methods can be used to continue the numeration.
From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
Ingram was now forty three or four, and leaner than ever.
From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von
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