forty-five
a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
a symbol for this number, as 45 or XLV.
a set of this many persons or things.
amounting to 45 in number.
Words Nearby forty-five
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How to use forty-five in a sentence
forty-five KLAC listeners withdrew their pledges in protest at his remarks.
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America | David Yaffe, Scott Saul | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTforty-five minutes were estimated to have elapsed from the time the stabbing began until the killer left.
forty-five relatives, all women and children, were taken by ISIS fighters in Qiniyeh.
Amnesty Report: ISIS Committing Ethnic Cleansing on an Historic Scale | Nico Hines | September 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are two back-to-back forty-five-minute segments without commercials.
forty-five year-old Boris Aseyev, a web designer, was one of the civilians wounded on February 20.
Photographs Expose Russian-Trained Killers in Kiev | Jamie Dettmer | March 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
At the age of forty-five Monte Irvin was not ill-looking, and, indeed, was sometimes spoken of as handsome.
Dope | Sax RohmerThe sails might have been seen in motion forty or forty-five years ago, and probably corn was then ground there.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellIf, after all efforts, no fluid is obtained, another test-meal should be given and withdrawn in forty-five minutes.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddSoon the whole of the Prussian army, forty-five thousand strong, was engaged in the attempt to crush the small French force.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonI am due to attend at twelve-forty-five in the state temple, where we sanctify some new idol.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for forty-five (1 of 2)
a gramophone record played at 45 revolutions per minute
US and Canadian a pistol having .45 calibre
British Dictionary definitions for Forty-Five (2 of 2)
the Forty-Five British history another name for Jacobite Rebellion (def. 2)
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