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
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"But in principle, nothing prevents us from writing down physical equations for a larger number of dimensions -- five dimensions, forty-two dimensions, or even infinitely many."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
“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
His first clue is that six less than twice his number is between four and forty-two.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
The processional organization of forty-two works reveals the creation of a vocabulary, an increasing collection of codes and techniques.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2019
More than half of them had parents waiting for them at the curb, leaving only forty-two bus riders to put on nine buses.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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