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forty¹

  • /ˈfɔːti/ UK
  • /ˈfoːtɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈfoɹti/ US
  • [ˈfoɹɾi] US
  • [ˈfɑɹɾij]
  • /ˈfoːtij/ Australia, New Zealand
  • [ˈfo̝ːɾɪj] Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈfɔɾte/ Scotland
  • /-tɪ/ Scotland
  • /-ti/ Scotland
  • /fɒ(r).ʈi/ South Asia

Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)ti

Where it comes from

From Middle English fourty, forty, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty.

number fourty

  1. The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40. 'Tis forty years this very day, Since you and I, old girl, were married.

    Similar: twoscore

noun forties · fourty

  1. US, slang A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces. It's on, wrap my lips around the forty / And when it comes to getting another stogie […] Grab your forty, let's get keyed

forty²

  • /ˈfɔːti/ UK
  • /ˈfoːtɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈfoɹti/ US
  • [ˈfoɹɾi] US
  • [ˈfɑɹɾij]
  • /ˈfoːtij/ Australia, New Zealand
  • [ˈfo̝ːɾɪj] Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈfɔɾte/ Scotland
  • /-tɪ/ Scotland
  • /-ti/ Scotland
  • /fɒ(r).ʈi/ South Asia

Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)ti

Where it comes from

From fort + y.

adjective more forty · most forty · fourty

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cardinal, twoscore, xl, forty-four, forty-five, tall, lockdown, quarantined, hundred, jive, four, quarantine, niner, forty-second, eighter, eighty

Translations

Every language

num the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine

Españolcuarenta
한국어마흔 maheun, 사십 sasip
日本語四十 yonjū, 四十 shijū
中文四十 sìshí
हिन्दीचालीस cālīs
Kiswahiliarobaini, arubaini
Portuguêsquarenta
Françaisquarante
Deutschvierzig
Italianoquaranta
Ελληνικάσαράντα saránta
Românăpatruzeci
Русскийсо́рок sórok
Tiếng Việtbốn mươi, bốn chục
العربيةأَرْبَعُونَ ʔarbaʕūna
עבריתאַרְבָּעִים arba'ím

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@misc{forty_2026,
  title = {forty},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/forty},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}