forty-two

noun

a cardinal number, 40 plus 2.

a symbol for this number, as 42 or XLII.

a set of this many persons or things.

a game for two persons or two partnerships played with dominoes but based upon the rules for all fours.

adjective

amounting to 42 in number.

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Example sentences

She returned and counted off seven hundred and forty-two rupees.

Nicole is forty-two, blond and blue-eyed, with a gaze that is at once brisk and

friendly.

Altogether, there were forty-two trials of the six drugs.

She was older, for one thing, forty-two to his thirty-nine.

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