What does forty mean?
Definitions for forty
ˈfɔr tiforty
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word forty.
Princeton's WordNet
forty, 40, XLadjective
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four
forty, 40, xl, twoscoreadjective
being ten more than thirty
Wiktionary
fortynoun
A 40 ounce bottle of beer.
fortynumeral
The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FORTYadjective
Four times ten.
Etymology: feowertig, Saxon.
On fair ground I could beat forty of them. William Shakespeare, Coriol.
He that upon levity quits his station, in hopes to be better, ’tis forty to one loses. Roger L'Estrange.
Wikipedia
forty
40 (forty) is the natural number following 39 and preceding 41. Though the word is related to "four" (4), the spelling "forty" replaced "fourty" in the course of the 17th century and is now the standard form.
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forty
Forty is the natural number that follows thirty-nine and precedes forty-one. It is an even number represented by "40" in Arabic numerals. It is often used in terms like “forty years old” or “forty percent.” It also has significance in various cultural, religious, and historical contexts around the world.
Webster Dictionary
Fortyadjective
four times ten; thirty-nine and one more
Fortynoun
the sum of four tens; forty units or objects
Fortynoun
a symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl
Etymology: [OE. forti, fourti, fowerti, AS. fewertig; fewer four + suff. -tig ten; akin to OS. fiwartig, fiartig, D. veertig, G. vierzig, Icel. fjrutu, Sw. fyratio, Dan. fyrretyve, Goth. fidwr tigjus. See Four, and Ten, and cf. Fourteen.]
Wikidata
Forty
Forty: Live Limited Edition is a live album released by Thomas Dolby in 2001. It was recorded at a gathering at his Half Moon Bay, Northern California, home celebrating his fortieth birthday, and at another private performance. It features backing musicians Brian Salter, Leslie Adams, and Caroline Lavelle. All seven songs originally appeared on previous albums: three from The Flat Earth, two from Aliens Ate My Buick, and one each from The Golden Age of Wireless and Astronauts and Heretics.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Forty
for′ti, adj. and n. four times ten.—adj. For′tieth.—n. a fortieth part.—Forty winks, a short nap, esp. after dinner.—The Forty, the French Academy. [A.S. féowertig—feower, four, tig, ten.]
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Forty
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
FORTY
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Forty is ranked #66553 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Forty surname appeared 297 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Forty.
60.6% or 180 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
36.3% or 108 total occurrences were White.
2.6% or 8 total occurrences were Black.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'forty' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3566
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'forty' in Written Corpus Frequency: #278
Usage in printed sourcesFrom:
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of forty in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of forty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of forty in a Sentence
Forty-five years ago, while still a college student, I did something that I have regretted every single day since. In response to actions I feel unnecessary to specify, I lashed out and became violent with other people, including my former wife, which led to a divorce and monumental change in my life.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
My parents' generation for forty years fought to eliminate communist ideology from schools, so it couldn't be forced on children. So youth, children, soldiers and youth organizations couldn't be indoctrinated, they didn't fight for this so that a new ideology would appear that is even more destructive.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more.
Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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- veertigAfrikaans
- ٤٠, أَرْبَعِينَ, أربَعُونArabic
- qırxAzerbaijani
- ҡырҡBashkir
- соракBelarusian
- четиридесетBulgarian
- চল্লিশBengali
- daou-ugentBreton
- quarantaCatalan, Valencian
- шовзткъаChechen
- čtyřicetCzech
- чєтырє дєсѧтєOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- fyrreDanish
- vierzigGerman
- σαράνταGreek
- kvardekEsperanto
- cuarentaSpanish
- nelikümmendEstonian
- berrogeiBasque
- چهلPersian
- neljäkymmentäFinnish
- va saga vuluFijian
- fjørutiFaroese
- quaranteFrench
- fjirtichWestern Frisian
- daicheadIrish
- ceathrad, fichead, dàScottish Gaelic
- corentaGalician
- אַרְבָּעִיםHebrew
- चालीसHindi
- karantHaitian Creole
- negyvenHungarian
- քառասունArmenian
- quarantaInterlingua
- empat puluhIndonesian
- quaradekIdo
- fjörutíuIcelandic
- quarantaItalian
- 四十Japanese
- ორმოციGeorgian
- қырықKazakh
- សែសិបKhmer
- 마흔, 四十, 사십Korean
- çil, چلKurdish
- кыркKyrgyz
- quadragintaLatin
- véierzegLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ສີ່ສິບLao
- keturiasdešimtLithuanian
- četrdesmitLatvian
- whā tekauMāori
- четириесетMacedonian
- дөчMongolian
- empat puluhMalay
- erbgħinMaltese
- လေးဆယ်Burmese
- animoNauru
- veertigDutch
- førtiNorwegian
- dízdiinNavajo, Navaho
- makumi anayiChichewa, Chewa, Nyanja
- quarantaOccitan
- niimidanaOjibwe, Ojibwa
- czterdzieściPolish
- quarentaPortuguese
- tawa chunkaQuechua
- curànta, quaraunta, quaranta, curontaRomansh
- patruzeciRomanian
- со́рокRussian
- चत्वारिंशत्Sanskrit
- caranta, barantaSardinian
- четрдесет, četrdesetSerbo-Croatian
- හතළිහSinhala, Sinhalese
- štyridsaťSlovak
- štiridesetSlovene
- fagafuluSamoan
- dyzetAlbanian
- fyrti, fyrtioSwedish
- arobainiSwahili
- నలభైTelugu
- чилTajik
- สี่สิบThai
- ኣርባዓTigrinya
- kyrkTurkmen
- fāgofuluTonga (Tonga Islands)
- kırkTurkish
- кырыкTatar
- maha 'ahuruTahitian
- сорокUkrainian
- چالیسUrdu
- qirqUzbek
- bốn mươiVietnamese
- foldegVolapük
- פֿערציקYiddish
- 四十Chinese
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