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forty

Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːti/

The English word “forty” has 3 meanings listed here.

numeral

  1. The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.

noun

  1. A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces.

adjective

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

Etymology

From Middle English fourty, forty, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty.

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