forty

[US]/'fɔːtɪ/
[UK]/'fɔrti/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the number equivalent to four tens
adj. being four times ten; consisting of forty units
Word Forms
Pluralforties

Phrases & Collocations

forty days

forty pounds

forty percent

forty students

forty thousand

Example Sentences

for nigh on forty years

Forty is a whole number.

a tree forty feet high.

forty horse and sixty foot.

I'm this side of forty-five.

there were about thirty or forty of them.

Asquith made a speech of forty minutes.

Buck outdrove him by forty yards.

thirty or forty years ago.

forty acres of tillage.

forty miles to the south of the site.

he was in debt to the tune of forty thousand pounds.

Life begins at forty.

She is forty or thereabout(s).

the forty-eight conterminous United States.

Troy was only forty miles away.

about forty possible sites were inventoried.

Real-world Examples

Can I have forty dollars for lunch? - Forty dollars?

Source: Modern Family - Season 01

2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

Source: Bible (original version)

Yes, well, he's in his late forties.

Source: yp/ymp

Then you're gonna give me forty more.

Source: Classic movies

We had almost forty of us together in one hotel.

Source: Emma's delicious English

" Forty years--so long! How could you have lived forty years--without him" ?

Source: VOA Special June 2020 Collection

She has lived in Beijing for more than forty years.

Source: Beijing Ren'ai Edition Junior High School English Grade Nine Upper Volume

12 For forty days and forty nights heavy rain poured down on the earth.

Source: New American Bible

Right there thirty. Forty! Forty million!

Source: Lost Girl Season 2

I read she's twenty-nine, but she must be at least forty.

Source: New Concept English: British English Version, Book 1 (Translation)

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