Wiktionary
n. (context fractional English) One of forty-two equal parts of a whole. num. (context ordinal English) The ordinal form of the number forty-two, describing a person or thing in position number 42 of a sequence.
WordNet
adj. the ordinal number of forty-two in counting order [syn: 42nd]
Usage examples of "forty-second".
Svoboda will be in command of this town when the Forty-second moves out.
THE FORTY-SECOND CHAPTER How Apuleius after the Baker was hanged, was sold to a Gardener, and what dreadfull things happened.
Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography, the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street, the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains, the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor, the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe, the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan, the perversion-targeting in video mail-order, the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs.
On the forty-second day after First Fall, with Thread crossing uninhabited parts of Araby and Cathay and falling harmlessly in the Northern Sea above Delta, missing Dorado´s western prong, Admiral Benden and Governor Boll decreed a day of rest and leisure for all.
On the forty-second day after First Fall, with Thread crossing uninhabited parts of Araby and Cathay and falling harmlessly in the Northern Sea above Delta, missing Dorado's western prong, Admiral Benden and Governor Boll decreed a day of rest and leisure for all.
I mean, you're bound to feel a bit brainy and blueblooded, a bit of an exquisite, when you walk through Forty-Second Street or Union Square, or even Sixth Avenue at noon, the office men, with lunchbox faces and truant eyes.
From the distance came the pounding of mindless music and the calls of the vendors on Forty-second Street, and Sister Creep crooned in a strangled voice, “Hushabye, hushabye, little baby don’t you cry…” She couldn’t remember the rest of it.
Neslor walked along Forty-second Street, stopped in a couple peep shows.
They turned into Forty-second Street, with its dimly lit honky tonks, burlesque shows, dark theater marquees and penny arcades.
Ehhif screamed and ran in all directions—out into the Graybar and Hyatt passages, out onto Forty-second Street, up the stairs to the Vanderbilt Avenue exit—as the saurians charged across the marble floor, and their shrieks of rage and hunger echoed under the high blue sky.
Still, the last day of October of this year will mark the forty-second month that the telecommunications network has been in existence.
The Lotus pulled out from under Kit's hand, turning to face down Forty-second the way they had come, growling deep under its hood.