FORTY-FIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forty-five mean? 

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

1. a .45-caliber pistol

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

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

1. being five more than forty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORTY-FIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A .45-caliber pistol

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

handgun; pistol; shooting iron; side arm (a firearm that is held and fired with one hand)

• FORTY-FIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being five more than forty

Synonyms:

45; forty-five; xlv

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Grant, who came consequently to reside at Mansfield; and on proving to be a hearty man of forty-five, seemed likely to disappoint Mr. Bertram's calculations.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That forty-five dollars will pay about all my debts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

These myeloid progenitor cells die within forty-five days after a burst of hematopoiesis.

(Human Myeloid Progenitor Cells CLT-008, NCI Thesaurus)

His forehead, which pressed upon the near edge of the plate, tilted the plate up against his hair at an angle of forty-five degrees.

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

I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, while he can hardly be less than forty-five.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Boost him along, and I’ll promote you to his place, and he’s getting forty-five dollars a month.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For fifty yards it ran almost straight into the rock, and then it ascended at an angle of forty-five.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was still looking at the doorway, thinking that Miss Mowcher was a long while making her appearance, when, to my infinite astonishment, there came waddling round a sofa which stood between me and it, a pursy dwarf, of about forty or forty-five, with a very large head and face, a pair of roguish grey eyes, and such extremely little arms, that, to enable herself to lay a finger archly against her snub nose, as she ogled Steerforth, she was obliged to meet the finger half-way, and lay her nose against it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Spies had been sent out in the morning, and returned after nightfall to say that the King of Spain was encamped some fourteen miles off in the direction of Burgos, having with him twenty thousand horse and forty-five thousand foot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)