forty-two

[ fawr-tee-too ]

/ ˈfɔr tiˈtu /

a cardinal number, 40 plus 2.

a symbol for this number, as 42 or XLII.

a set of this many persons or things.

a game for two persons or two partnerships played with dominoes but based upon the rules for all fours.

amounting to 42 in number.

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Forty-two years after its debut, The Godfather casts a long shadow over American cinema.
The Alterna-‘Godfather’: ‘A Most Violent Year’|Nick Schager|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her mother “was forty-two, and not delighted… I weighed over ten pounds and (she told me frequently) I nearly finished her off.”
The Neglected Penelope Mortimer Was a Novelist Ahead of Her Time|Jessica Ferri|March 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Forty-two of the 49 Tunisian women parliamentarians are members of the Islamist Ennahda party.
Libya’s Woman Fight for Constitutional Voice|Jamie Dettmer|December 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Forty-two year-old Tareq displayed an almost childlike need to be the smart guy in the room, the one in control.
Michaele and Tareq Salahi’s Hellish Divorce|Diane Dimond|January 5, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Forty-two percent of Afghan citizens live below the poverty line [PDF].
Don't Forget Afghan Women|Paula Dobriansky, Karen Hughes|April 10, 2011|DAILY BEAST
When the patient was five years old the father died suddenly from a stroke, at the age of forty-two.
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology|C. G. Jung
The deputies of forty-two chief departments of the nation, in alphabetical order.
Dr. Stearns's Tour from London to Paris|Samuel Stearns
Its southern extremity is in about forty-two degrees of latitude, and fifty degrees west longitude from Greenwich.
Jack in the Forecastle|John Sherburne Sleeper
Almost all extended to the mountains which surround the Campagna, even reaching a length of forty-two Roman miles.
History of Ancient Art|Franz von Reber
There, on page forty-two, behold my odorous specimen, true to life!
Eye Spy|William Hamilton Gibson