forty

• fourty (obsolete)

• (UK, General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: fô'tē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːtiː/
• (General American) enPR: fôr'tē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹti/, [ˈfɔɹɾi]
  • (St. Louis) IPA^(key): [ˈfɑɹɾij]

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
• Hyphenation: for‧ty

From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”).

forty

1. The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one.
   • 1825, unknown, Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 35:

     'Tis forty years this very day,
     Since you and I, old girl, were married.

• In modern usage, the spelling fourty is nonstandard.

• Arabic numerals: 40
• Roman numerals: XL

• Ordinal: fortieth
• home forty

• Last: thirty (30), thirty-nine (39)
• Next: forty-one (41), fifty (50)

forty (plural forties)

1. (slang) A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces.

From fort +‎ -y.

forty (comparative more forty, superlative most forty)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.tɘ/
• Rhymes: -ɔrtɘ
• Syllabification: for‧ty

forty

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fort