FORTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forty mean? 

• FORTY (noun)
  The noun FORTY has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four

  Familiarity information: FORTY used as a noun is very rare.

• FORTY (adjective)
  The adjective FORTY has 1 sense:

1. being ten more than thirty

  Familiarity information: FORTY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the product of ten and four

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

40; forty; XL

Hypernyms ("forty" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• FORTY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being ten more than thirty

Synonyms:

40; forty; twoscore; xl

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

Its forty feet of length would supply the height necessary properly to swing the mast.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Here I walked on for some time, but could see little on either side, it being now near harvest, and the corn rising at least forty feet.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Over forty thousand copies have already been sold in the United States and Canada, and a new edition of twenty thousand is on the presses.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At a rough guess the gulf was forty feet across, but, so far as I could see, it might as well have been forty miles.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that at last they all lay dead in a heap before the Woodman.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Come back for it, then; I am your banker for forty pounds.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So when they came to a passage up the rocks, he halted his forty men, and through Karduk demanded if the way were clear.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Straight at the man he launched his one hundred and forty pounds of fury, surcharged with the pent passion of two days and nights.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He had not eaten in forty hours, and he was weak with hunger.

(White Fang, by Jack London)