FORTY-ONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forty-one mean? 

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

1. being one more than forty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORTY-ONE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one more than forty

Synonyms:

41; forty-one; xli

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

A natural number greater than thirty-nine and less than forty-one and the quantity that it denotes.

(Forty, NCI Thesaurus)

Born in 1846.’ He’s forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage.

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

These, it seemed, were calculations of compound interest on what he called “the principal amount of forty-one, ten, eleven and a half”, for various periods.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Forty-one next month, master.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are three hundred and forty-one in the town, said Aylward, and I hear that three hundred and forty cartels and defiances have already been sent in, the only one missing being Sir John Ravensholme, who is in his bed with the sweating sickness, and cannot set foot to ground.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I beg to hand to my friend Mr. Thomas Traddles my I.O.U. for forty-one, ten, eleven and a half, and I am happy to recover my moral dignity, and to know that I can once more walk erect before my fellow man!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The amount of the first obligation,” here Mr. Micawber carefully referred to papers, “was, I believe, twenty-three, four, nine and a half, of the second, according to my entry of that transaction, eighteen, six, two. These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty-one, ten, eleven and a half. My friend Copperfield will perhaps do me the favour to check that total?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)