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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FOR'TY, a. [See Four.]
1. Four times ten.
2. An indefinite number; a colloquial use. A, B and C, and forty more.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural forties) Etymology: Middle English fourty, adjective, from Old English f?owertig, from f?owertig group of 40, from f?ower four + -tig group of 10; akin to Old English t?en ten Date: before 12th century 1. — see number table 2. plural the numbers 40 to 49; specifically the years 40 to 49 in a lifetime or century 3. the third point scored by a side in a game of tennis • fortieth adjective or noun • forty adjective • forty pronoun, plural in construction • fortyish adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 the product of four and ten. 2 a symbol for this (40, xl, XL). 3 (in pl.) the numbers from 40 to 49, esp. the years of a century or of a person's life. 4 (the Forties) Brit. the sea area between the NE coast of Scotland and the SW coast of Norway (so called from its depth of forty fathoms or more). --adj. that amount to forty. Phrases and idioms: forty-first, -second , etc. the ordinal numbers between fortieth and fiftieth. forty-five a gramophone record played at 45 r.p.m. the Forty-five the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. forty-niner US a seeker for gold etc., esp. in the Californian gold-rush of 1849. forty-one, -two , etc. the cardinal numbers between forty and fifty. forty winks colloq. a short sleep. Derivatives: fortieth adj. & n. fortyfold adj. & adv. Etymology: OE feowertig (as FOUR, -TY(2))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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[=i]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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(forties) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Forty is the number 40. NUM 2. When you talk about the forties, you are referring to numbers between 40 and 49. For example, if you are in your forties, you are aged between 40 and 49. If the temperature is in the forties, the temperature is between 40 and 49 degrees. He was a big man in his forties, smartly dressed in a suit and tie. N-PLURAL 3. The forties is the decade between 1940 and 1949. Steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties. N-PLURAL: the N

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

for'-ti ('arba`im; tessarakonta).

See FOUR (5); NUMBER.