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forty-first

[ fawr-tee-furst ]

adjective

  1. next after the fortieth; being the ordinal number for 41.
  2. being one of 41 equal parts.


noun

  1. a forty-first part, especially of one (1/41).
  2. the forty-first member of a series.

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Example Sentences

His life was but little longer than that of Raphael, for he died in his forty-first year.

If you alter that to 'north of Forty-first Street' it doesn't scan as well, but it's just as true.

She died on the 29th of November, 1780, in the sixty-fourth year of her age and the forty-first of her reign.

The case became hopeless, and be expired at half-past five this morning in the forty-first year of his age.

The model which the writer has had in view in this Haggadah is the forty-first chapter of the Book of Genesis.

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