FORTY-SIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forty-six mean? 

• FORTY-SIX (adjective)
  The adjective FORTY-SIX has 1 sense:

1. being six more than forty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORTY-SIX (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being six more than forty

Synonyms:

46; forty-six; xlvi

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

There’s Walker, of the Rose cutter, who, with thirteen men, engaged three French privateers with crews of a hundred and forty-six.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Peculiarly rich in the coleoptera and in the lepidoptera, forty-six new species of the one and ninety-four of the other had been secured in the course of a few weeks.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)