Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - forty
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Forty
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(forties) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Forty is the number 40. NUM 2. When you talk about the forties, you are referring to numbers between 40 and 49. For example, if you are in your forties, you are aged between 40 and 49. If the temperature is in the forties, the temperature is between 40 and 49 degrees. He was a big man in his forties, smartly dressed in a suit and tie. N-PLURAL 3. The forties is the decade between 1940 and 1949. Steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties. N-PLURAL: the N
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noun (plural forties) Etymology: Middle English fourty, adjective, from Old English feowertig, from feowertig group of 40, from feower four + -tig group of 10; akin to Old English tien ten Date: before 12th century 1. — see number table 2. plural the numbers 40 to 49; specifically the years 40 to 49 in a lifetime or century 3. the third point scored by a side in a game of tennis • fortieth adjective or noun • ~ adjective • ~ pronoun, plural in construction • ~ish adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 the product of four and ten. 2 a symbol for this (40, xl, XL). 3 (in pl.) the numbers from 40 to 49, esp. the years of a century or of a person's life. 4 (the Forties) Brit. the sea area between the NE coast of Scotland and the SW coast of Norway (so called from its depth of forty fathoms or more). --adj. that amount to forty. Phrases and idioms forty-first, -second , etc. the ordinal numbers between fortieth and fiftieth. forty-five a gramophone record played at 45 r.p.m. the Forty-five the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. forty-niner US a seeker for gold etc., esp. in the Californian gold-rush of 1849. forty-one, -two , etc. the cardinal numbers between forty and fifty. forty winks colloq. a short sleep. Derivatives fortieth adj. & n. fortyfold adj. & adv. Etymology: OE feowertig (as FOUR, -TY(2)) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. группа из сорока человек или предметов there were forty of them —- их было сорок in (by) forties —- по сорока 2. сорок лет (о возрасте) he is forty —- ему сорок лет he must be under forty —- ему еще нет сорока at forty —- в сорок лет, в сорокалетнем возрасте a man of forty —- сорокалетний человек 3. яхта грузоподъемностью в сорок тонн 4. (число) сорок forty books —- сорок книг forty tens are four hundred —- сорок, помноженное на десять, - четыреста forty times as much —- в сорок раз больше 5. (номер) сорок, (номер) сороковой Chapter forty —- сороковая глава Room forty —- комната (номер) сорок forty-one, forty-two, etc —- сорок один, сорок два и т.д. forty-first, forty-second, etc —- сорок первый, сорок второй и т.д. Id: forty ways for (from, to) Sunday —- ам. сл. как попало; во все стороны; в полном беспорядке ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. num. card. сорок forty-one - сорок один forty-two - сорок два и т.д. - forty winks the F-five якобитское восстание 1745 г. 2. noun сорок (единиц, штук) FORTY winks короткий (послеобеденный) сон ...Англо-русский словарь
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- O.E. feowertig, from feower "four" + tig "group of ten." Roaring Forties are rough parts of the ocean between 40 and 50 degrees lattitude. Forty winks "short sleep" is attested from 1828. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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