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forty-two

[ fawr-tee-too ]

/ ˈfɔr tiˈtu /

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noun

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.

adjective

amounting to 42 in number.

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Forty-two year-old Tareq displayed an almost childlike need to be the smart guy in the room, the one in control.
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Forty-two percent of Afghan citizens live below the poverty line [PDF].
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When the patient was five years old the father died suddenly from a stroke, at the age of forty-two.
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The deputies of forty-two chief departments of the nation, in alphabetical order.
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Its southern extremity is in about forty-two degrees of latitude, and fifty degrees west longitude from Greenwich.
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Almost all extended to the mountains which surround the Campagna, even reaching a length of forty-two Roman miles.
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There, on page forty-two, behold my odorous specimen, true to life!
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