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FORTY-FIRST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does forty-first mean?
• FORTY-FIRST (adjective)
The adjective FORTY-FIRST has 1 sense:
1. the ordinal number of forty-one in counting order
Familiarity information: FORTY-FIRST used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ordinal number of forty-one in counting order
Synonyms:
41st; forty-first
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples
George was then in his forty-first year, and with the help of his tailor and his hairdresser, he might have passed as somewhat less.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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