forty-two

[ fawr-tee-too ]

/ ˈfɔr tiˈtu /

a cardinal number, 40 plus 2.

a symbol for this number, as 42 or XLII.

a set of this many persons or things.

a game for two persons or two partnerships played with dominoes but based upon the rules for all fours.

amounting to 42 in number.

Words nearby forty-two

Forty-two years after its debut, The Godfather casts a long shadow over American cinema.

The Alterna-‘Godfather’: ‘A Most Violent Year’ |Nick Schager |December 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Her mother “was forty-two, and not delighted… I weighed over ten pounds and (she told me frequently) I nearly finished her off.”

The Neglected Penelope Mortimer Was a Novelist Ahead of Her Time |Jessica Ferri |March 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Forty-two of the 49 Tunisian women parliamentarians are members of the Islamist Ennahda party.

Libya’s Woman Fight for Constitutional Voice |Jamie Dettmer |December 9, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Forty-two year-old Tareq displayed an almost childlike need to be the smart guy in the room, the one in control.

Michaele and Tareq Salahi’s Hellish Divorce |Diane Dimond |January 5, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

Forty-two percent of Afghan citizens live below the poverty line [PDF].

Don't Forget Afghan Women |Paula Dobriansky, Karen Hughes |April 10, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
When the patient was five years old the father died suddenly from a stroke, at the age of forty-two.

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology |C. G. Jung
The deputies of forty-two chief departments of the nation, in alphabetical order.

Dr. Stearns's Tour from London to Paris |Samuel Stearns
Its southern extremity is in about forty-two degrees of latitude, and fifty degrees west longitude from Greenwich.

Jack in the Forecastle |John Sherburne Sleeper
Almost all extended to the mountains which surround the Campagna, even reaching a length of forty-two Roman miles.

History of Ancient Art |Franz von Reber
There, on page forty-two, behold my odorous specimen, true to life!

Eye Spy |William Hamilton Gibson