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3 definitions found 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}]
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