forty-three

American  

[fawr-tee-three] / ˈfɔr tiˈθri /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 40 plus 3.

2. a symbol for this number, as 43 or XLIII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 43 in number.

Example Sentences

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

But the moon’s shadow was not to fall completely on the earth, hiding the sun, until between forty three minutes past eleven and forty-seven minutes fifty-seven seconds past eleven.

From The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude by D'Anvers, N.

"Forty" is three strokes before every game, "half forty" three and two, alternately, as before.

From Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 by Various

It covers an area of eight hundred and forty three acres, and is about two and a half miles long by half a mile in width.

From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney