forties
IPA: fˈɔrtiz
noun
- The decade of the 1840s, 1940s, etc.
- The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 40 and 49.
- A sea area, in the northern part of the North Sea, where the depth of water is consistently forty fathoms
adjective
- From or evoking the 41st through 50th years of a century (chiefly the 1940s).
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Examples of "forties" in Sentences
- I am in my forties.
- He got the award in his forties.
- The UK was a pile of rubble in the mid forties.
- He was then dismissed three times in the forties.
- It continued into the mid thirties and reformed in the forties.
- The students per grade ranges from the forties to the mid twenties.