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
- Sellers, in his late forties, is young for his rank.
- Cliff Joyner, in his early forties, is from North Carolina.
- A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market.
- One poem, "The Moose," begun in the mid-forties, is legendary for waiting nearly thirty years to receive her seal of approval.
- Chatting with creative director Kobi Halperin, I find out that a military blanket from the forties is the inspiration for the new mens' line.
- Although _Pyetushkov_ shows us, by a certain open _naïveté_ of style, that a youthful hand is at work, it is the hand of a young master, carrying out the realism of the 'forties' -- that of Gogol, Balzac, and
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