forty-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 42 or XLII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
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a game for two persons or two partnerships played with dominoes but based upon the rules for all fours.
adjective
Example Sentences
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“Tragedy: forty-two people, among those thirty women, eight children and four men, died when a boat capsized off the coast of Dakhla,” tweeted Helena Maleno of Caminando Fronteras, which monitors migratory flows.
From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2021
Three years ago, Jolanda Woods’s husband, Robert Woods, who was forty-two, began working at a Dollar General on Grand Boulevard, across from an abandoned grocery store.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 29, 2020
His first clue is that six less than twice his number is between four and forty-two.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
The water temperature was about six degrees Celsius, or forty-two degrees Fahrenheit, slightly milder than I had become accustomed to at the Ladies’ Pond.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
She’ll be on it for forty-two of its nearly three hundred miles.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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