fourty

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A form of forty — The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.

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Meanings

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  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of forty.

    [I]t is also voted and hereby to be understood that we have concluded to pay yearly or per annum one hundred and fourty pounds Salary[…]

    1719—1762, George Waldo Browne, editor, Early Records of Londonderry, Windham, and Derry, N. H., published 1908
  2. misspellingMisspelling of forty.
    1 more example

    This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.

    2014 January 28, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30
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APA

fourty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fourty

MLA

“fourty.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fourty. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fourty,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fourty.

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