forties
See also: Forties
English
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[edit]forties
Noun
[edit]forties pl (plural only)
- The decade of the 1840s, 1940s, etc.
- The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49.
- They're both in their forties.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 40 and 49.
- What to wear when the weather is in the forties really depends on whether you're talking fahrenheit or celsius.
Derived terms
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[edit]the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc
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See also
[edit]| 18th century | 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s |
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| 19th century | 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s |
| 20th century | 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s |
| 21st century | 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s |
| 22nd century | 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s |
| 23rd century | 2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s |
| Decade only | 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s |
| '00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s | |
| 00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's | |
| zeros/zeroes or aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties | |
| Nicknames | Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties |
Adjective
[edit]forties (not comparable)
- From or evoking the 41st through 50th years of a century (chiefly the 1940s).
- Two forties aircraft sat forgotten in the hangar until they were rediscovered by two trespassing teens.
- 1991, Judith B. Kerman, “Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia”, in Judith B. Kerman, editor, Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 2nd edition, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 16:
- Like any big modern city, Scott's Los Angeles of 2019 is saturated with technologies; in fact, it is most striking for its layering of technologies, styles, lifestyles and ethnicities, which range from oriental peasant altars and cookfires through forties hats and building facades to off-world colonies and androids.