forty-two

[fawr-tee-too]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 40 plus 2.

2. a symbol for this number, as 42 or XLII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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

adjective

1. amounting to 42 in number.

Example Sentences

The swimming pool alone measured one hundred feet by forty-two feet and sat under a glass roof, surrounded by walkways lined with white columns.

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Outside the train station they hopped on the number forty-two bus to get to their hotel.

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I didn’t even mention the forty-two thousand old oil paintings of stuffy dead guys with fur collars no one cared about.

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The commander of the front himself sent a telegram to the regiment, congratulating the two pilots on their fearlessness and airmanship: they had turned away forty-two enemy bombers, and shot down four of them.

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Next stop is the art room, where we divvy up these forty-two precious names and transfer them onto strips of colored paper, to be formed into loops and added to the chain.

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