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FORTY-FIRST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forty-first mean? 

FORTY-FIRST (adjective)
  The adjective FORTY-FIRST has 1 sense:

1. the ordinal number of forty-one in counting orderplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FORTY-FIRST (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The ordinal number of forty-one in counting order

Synonyms:

41st; forty-first

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)


 Context examples 


George was then in his forty-first year, and with the help of his tailor and his hairdresser, he might have passed as somewhat less.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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