forty-second

[ fawr-tee-sek-uhnd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
being one of 42 equal parts.

noun

a forty-second part, especially of one (1/42).
the forty-second member of a series.

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When Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2007, he spoke at a ceremony in Selma commemorating the forty-second anniversary of the march to Montgomery.

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So half an hour later, when the rope-ladder had been finished and hung, and the forty-second boot had been laced neatly onto the Centipede’s forty-second foot, they were all ready to go out.

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Politico later reported that it was Hannity’s seventh interview with the President, and Fox’s forty-second.

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In Puerto Rico, the trolley stops for its forty-second break.

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He gave this picture to his father for his forty-second birthday.

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fortypenny forty-seven

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