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From or evoking the 41st through 50th years of a century (chiefly the 1940s).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- Two forties aircraft sat forgotten in the hangar until they were rediscovered by two trespassing teens.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A sea area, in the northern part of the North Sea, where the depth of water is consistently forty fathoms
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
plural of forty
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- My ma was born in the forties and my pa was born in the seventies.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: '40s, 40s
Antonyms: none provided
The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- They're both in their forties.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The range between 40 and 49.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Qualifier: rates
Topics: temperature
Examples
- What to wear when the weather is in the forties really depends on whether you're talking fahrenheit or celsius.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the time of life between 40 and 50
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mid-forties
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time of life
the decade from 1940 to 1949
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: 1940s
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decade, decennary, decennium
From forties, due to the dpth of the area.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
四十年代
(sìshí niándài)
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Chinese Mandarin:
40年代
(sìshí niándài)
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Dutch:
jaren veertig
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Dutch:
jaren 40
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Dutch:
jaren 1940
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Finnish:
neljäkymmentäluku
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Finnish:
nelikymmenluku
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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French:
années quarante
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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French:
années 40
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Georgian:
ორმოციანები
(ormocianebi)
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Georgian:
40-იანები
(40-ianebi)
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Georgian:
ორმოციანი წლები
(ormociani c̣lebi)
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Georgian:
40-იანი წლები
(40-iani c̣lebi)
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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German:
vierziger Jahre
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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German:
Vierziger
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Hungarian:
negyvenes évek
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Italian:
quarantenne
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Italian:
anta
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Italian:
anni quaranta
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Japanese:
四十年代
(yonjū-nendai)
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Japanese:
40年代
(yonjū-nendai)
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Korean:
사십년대
(sasimnyeondae)
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Korean:
40년대
(sasimnyeondae)
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Polish:
lata czterdzieste
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Polish:
lata 40.
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Russian:
сороковы́е
(sorokovýje)
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Spanish:
años cuarenta
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Spanish:
década de 1940
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Swedish:
fyrtiotalet
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Swedish:
fyrtiotal
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Welsh:
deugeiniau
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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Welsh:
pedwardegau
— the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc