Forty

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Forty \For"ty\ (f[^o]r"t[y^]), a. [OE. forti, fourti, fowerti,
     AS. fe['o]wertig; fe['o]wer four + suff. -tig ten; akin to
     OS. fiwartig, fiartig, D. veertig, G. vierzig, Icel.
     fj["o]rut[imac]u, Sw. fyratio, Dan. fyrretyve, Goth.
     fidw[=o]r tigjus. See {Four}, and {Ten}, and cf. {Fourteen}.]
     Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Forty \For"ty\, n.; pl. {Forties} (-t[i^]z).
     1. The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.
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     2. A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  forty
       adj : being ten more than thirty [syn: {40}, {xl}, {twoscore}]
       n : the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four
           [syn: {40}, {XL}]