Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
forty-two [fawr-tee-too] Examples noun
- a cardinal number, 40 plus 2.
- a symbol for this number, as 42 or XLII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- a game for two persons or two partnerships played with dominoes but based upon the rules for all fours.
adjective
- amounting to 42 in number.
Examples from the Web for forty-two Contemporary Examples of forty-two
Forty-two years after its debut, The Godfather casts a long shadow over American cinema.
The Alterna-‘Godfather’: ‘A Most Violent Year’
Nick Schager
December 30, 2014
Her mother “was forty-two, and not delighted… I weighed over ten pounds and (she told me frequently) I nearly finished her off.”
The Neglected Penelope Mortimer Was a Novelist Ahead of Her Time
Jessica Ferri
March 25, 2014
Forty-two of the 49 Tunisian women parliamentarians are members of the Islamist Ennahda party.
Libya’s Woman Fight for Constitutional Voice
Jamie Dettmer
December 9, 2012
Forty-two year-old Tareq displayed an almost childlike need to be the smart guy in the room, the one in control.
Michaele and Tareq Salahi’s Hellish Divorce
Diane Dimond
January 5, 2012
Forty-two percent of Afghan citizens live below the poverty line [PDF].
Paula Dobriansky, Karen Hughes
April 10, 2011
Historical Examples of forty-two
I’m forty-two and not so much of a fool that I ain’t a little bit of a physician.
Harry Leon Wilson
Sedan’s proportionate share of the assessment was forty-two thousand francs.
Emile Zola
Lowell died in 1817, at the early age of forty-two, but his work did not die with him.
Holland Thompson
He’d said that what he was looking for—and what he’d found—was forty-two thousand miles from Weald.
Murray Leinster
He cleared the water forty-two times, all in a very few minutes.
Zane Grey