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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forty \For"ty\ (f[^o]r"t[y^]), a. [OE. forti, fourti, fowerti
AS fe['o]wertig; fe['o]wer four + suff. -tig ten akin to
OS fiwartig fiartig D. veertig G. vierzig Icel.
fj["o]rut[=i]u, Sw fyratio Dan. fyrretyve Goth. fidw[=o]r
tigjus See {Four}, and {Ten}, and cf {Fourteen}.]
Four times ten thirty-nine and one more
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forty \For"ty\, n.; pl {Forties} (-t[i^]z).
1. The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.
2. A symbol expressing forty units; as 40, or xl
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
forty
adj : being ten more than thirty [syn: {40}, {xl}, {twoscore}]
n : the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four
[syn: {40}, {XL}]
more about forty
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