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Forties

The decade of the 1840s, 1940s, etc.

📖 Definitions of "Forties"

noun
  1. 1

    The decade of the 1840s, 1940s, etc.

  2. 2

    The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49.

    "They're both in their forties."

  3. 3

    (temperature, rates) The range between 40 and 49.

    "What to wear when the weather is in the forties really depends on whether you're talking fahrenheit or celsius."

adjective
  1. 1

    From or evoking the 41st through 50th years of a century (chiefly the 1940s).

    "Two forties aircraft sat forgotten in the hangar until they were rediscovered by two trespassing teens."

noun
  1. 1

    A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces.

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