Definitions for forty

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forty for·ty

Spelling: [fawr-tee]

IPA: /ˈfɔr ti/

Forty is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in forty (forty).

Definitions for forty

noun

1. a cardinal number, ten times four.
2. a symbol for this number, as 40 or XL or XXXX.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. forties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 40 through 49, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature:

adjective

1. amounting to 40 in number.

Origin of forty

before 950; Middle English fourti, Old English fēowertig (cognate with Old Frisian fiuwertich, Old High German fiorzug, German vierzig). See four,

Examples for forty

Several of these were killed, and their captain and forty men taken.

Found a rock hole with about forty gallons of water in it close to camp.

It was a short distance to the trees—twenty-five to forty yards, perhaps.

forty minutes later he says, ‘I think she may have chest injuries now.’

It made sense with so many suspects at hand, less so with the tower entrance separated from them by a forty foot wall.

He would not have been embarrassed if they had been the forty Thieves.

Almost forty years later, it seems unlikely this will ever be the case.

The usual working force of the House of Lords is from thirty to forty members.

I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.

We were on it for forty minutes of the film, a considerable part of our schedule.