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1️⃣ The number 41 1️⃣ One more than forty
forty-one

forty-one

1 1.0
One more than forty
  • adjective
  • /ˈfɔrtiˌwʌn/
translation icon : cuarenta y uno
  • He had quit the force three years earlier when he turned forty-one, the day his pension vested, and gone to work as head of security at a fairly upscale shopping center in Greenvale.
  • forty-one years old
  • forty-one-year
  • forty-one percent

Examples

  • I was a housepainter in the union for forty-one years.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • I'm forty-one.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • I am forty-one and look like hell.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • It's been a forty-one-year-long tunnel.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • In all of his forty-one years, he had never been discarded by a woman.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • She was forty-one when it was taken, and she had never been more beautiful.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • She was young too, only forty-one.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Ile nods untruthfully, dispirited, thinking he must find a new profession, which won't be easy at his age, forty-one.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • She turned forty-one last month and celebrated with her friends.

  • At forty-one, he decided to change careers and pursue his passion.

Synonyms

xli
vsforty-one
9.9

A Roman numeral for forty-one

is the cardinal expression written as words or digits rather than Roman letters

How Many

fifty
1.0
forty-one
1 1.0
forty
644 1.0
thirty
∞ 1.0
twenty
∞ 1.0
ten
311 1.0

Surface Forms

forty-one positive

Morphology

forty-one = forty + one (transparent) = forty + one

The meaning is the straightforward combination of 'forty' and 'one' to form the number 41.

Etymology

Forty-one comes from joining forty and one; forty is four plus the ending -ty meaning 'ten', so forty-one literally says 'four tens and one', which is why it means one more than forty.