transcription, транскрипция: [ fɔ:(r)ti ]
( forties)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Forty is the number 40.
NUM
2.
When you talk about the forties , you are referring to numbers between 40 and 49. For example, if you are in your forties , you are aged between 40 and 49. If the temperature is in the forties , the temperature is between 40 and 49 degrees.
He was a big man in his forties, smartly dressed in a suit and tie.
N-PLURAL
3.
The forties is the decade between 1940 and 1949.
Steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties.
N-PLURAL : the N