adj
Meaning 1
Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
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adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
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noun
A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces.
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Usage: US, slang
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num
The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.
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Synonyms: twoscore
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adjective satellite
being ten more than thirty
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: 40, xl, twoscore
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noun
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four
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Synonyms: 40, XL
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Broader terms: large integer
History
From fort + y.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kwetwṓr Proto-Germanic *fedwōr Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz Proto-West Germanic *feuwar tigiwi Old English fēowertiġ Middle English fourty English forty From Middle English fourty, forty, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty.
Across languages
239 source translations are retained for this English entry.