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Thirtieth, ..., fiftieth
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fortieth
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. the ordinal number of forty in counting order [syn: 40th ] n. position 40 in a countable series of things
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. The ordinal form of the number forty. n. 1 The person or thing in the fortieth position. 2 One of forty equal parts of a whole.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fortieth \For"ti*eth\, a. [AS. fe['o]wertigo?a. See Forty .] Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts. Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.
Usage examples of fortieth.
It will be recalled that in his fortieth chapter he waxes enthusiastic over Lewis Morris, the Welsh bard, who was born in Anglesey in 1700 and died in 1765.
It is Ashura, the tenth day of Muhurram, according to a real-time clock still tuned to the pace of a different era: the one thousand, three hundred and fortieth anniversary of the martyrdom of the third Imam, the Sayyid ash-Shuhada.
It is Ashura, the tenth day of Muhurram, according to a real-time clock still tuned to the pace of a different era: the one thousand, three hundred and fortieth anniversary of the martyrdom of the Third Imam, the Sayyid ash-Shuhada.
Now, in his fortieth year, as he looked across the room at young Mallory, he realized he had grown up into Cyrano, another poor hapless longnose who fell in love and found it to be a bleak place where he lived by himself.
Fein, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States, who gave the initial impetus by an invitation to address the Commemoration in 1985 of the fortieth anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands.
Fortieth has tried to seize all of them, or do you think he arranged a cooperative steal with the rulers of other planets, and an arrangement for them all to help protect each other?
But at this moment the Nautilus, raised by the last waves of the tide, quitted her coral bed exactly at the fortieth minute fixed by the Captain.
Obsessively, in the way a person worries a rip deep in a pocket, she now reached up under the floppy hat to feel her denuded scalp for the thirtieth or fortieth time.
They are frequently met with in Chile, in the Falkland Islands, and in all parts of America traversed by the thirtieth and fortieth parallels.
To begin at the beginning: On the morning of his fortieth birthday, in a room full of butterflies, Mirza Saeed Akhtar watched his sleeping wife.
On the morning of his fortieth birthday, however, as the first light of dawn touched the house and the butterflies began instantly to glow, the beauty of the moment took his breath away.
And this individual to whose credit the Dollar was deposited was no other person than the fortieth descendant of John Jones, who stipulated in paper which was placed in files of the bank that the descendancy was to place along the oldest child of each of the generations which would constitute his posterity.
But the actual cost to the family of having me at home was less than a fortieth of that.
Four years earlier, on his fortieth birthday, he had flung up the bachelor flat he had hitherto called home, and the Motivation Research job which paid for it, and had gone out into the world, wandering from town to town in search of what he privately called his destiny.
Like two bare-knuckled boxers, deep in their thirtieth or fortieth round, both bleeding and dazed, yet neither willing to give up, the two ships pounded each other.