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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural See
forty .
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- noun Plural form of
forty . - noun The
decade of the 1840s,1940s , etc. - noun The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the decade from 1940 to 1949
- noun the time of life between 40 and 50
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Examples
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A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market.
A Woman in Jerusalem: Summary and book reviews of A Woman in Jerusalem by A Yehoshua. 2006
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One poem, "The Moose," begun in the mid-forties, is legendary for waiting nearly thirty years to receive her seal of approval.
Paper Trail 2006
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One poem, "The Moose," begun in the mid-forties, is legendary for waiting nearly thirty years to receive her seal of approval.
Paper Trail 2006
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One poem, "The Moose," begun in the mid-forties, is legendary for waiting nearly thirty years to receive her seal of approval.
Paper Trail 2006
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Cliff Joyner, in his early forties, is from North Carolina.
The Magician 2005
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Cliff Joyner, in his early forties, is from North Carolina.
The Magician 2005
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Sellers, in his late forties, is young for his rank.
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Sellers, in his late forties, is young for his rank.
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Although _Pyetushkov_ shows us, by a certain open _naïveté_ of style, that a youthful hand is at work, it is the hand of a young master, carrying out the realism of the 'forties' -- that of Gogol, Balzac, and
A Desperate Character and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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Chatting with creative director Kobi Halperin, I find out that a military blanket from the forties is the inspiration for the new mens' line.
Alex Geana: 40s Style With Elie Tahari (PHOTOS) Alex Geana 2011
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