/ˈfɔːti/, [ˈfoːtɪj], /ˈfɔɹti/
OriginFrom Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty.
- 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.”
- US, slangA 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”
- Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
Formsfourty(alternative, obsolete) · forties(plural) · more forty(comparative) · most forty(superlative)