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- noun The
cardinal number immediately followingforty-three and precedingforty-five . - noun slang A .44 Magnum
handgun
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being four more than forty
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Examples
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Only I won, because in addition to all my other problems, I’m forty-four, which is a far cry from twenty-one.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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Only I won, because in addition to all my other problems, I’m forty-four, which is a far cry from twenty-one.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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Only I won, because in addition to all my other problems, I’m forty-four, which is a far cry from twenty-one.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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One brother was Louis Coulon de Villiers, forty-four, recently commandant of Fort Chartres on the Mississippi.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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At the age of forty-four, I was not ready to become a grandmother.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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The study also found that forty-four per cent of mosques do not hold their sermons at the main Friday prayers in English.
Young British Muslims at the mercy of extremists because of out-of-touch Imams 2009
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It was a long forty-four years before Russia recaptured Smolensk in 1654.
Matthew Yglesias » 18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas 2010
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In Long Island City I signed a commitment to make seventy-two monthly payments on a Saturn SL2 (four years old, forty-four thousand miles).
Boing Boing 2009
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Apparently, General Petraeus has forty-four countries to go.
Sen. Fritz Hollings: Wasting Lives and Money Sen. Fritz Hollings 2011
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Captain Daniel-Hyacinthe-Marie Liénard de Beaujeu, forty-four years old, had commanded troops in France as well as America.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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