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forty-one

forty-one

6 1.0
The number after forty and before forty-two
  • numeral
  • /ˈfɔrti wʌn/
translation icon : cuarenta y uno
  • There are forty-one students in the class this semester.
  • forty-one percent
  • forty-one students
  • forty-one questionnaires

Examples

  • Perhaps my travel, ending last night after forty-one hours, tells the story.

    Academic text (1992)
  • No hurry; after all, it's been in the box for forty-one years already.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • We have forty-one lawyers, so we are small compared with other firms.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • A variety of interest groups, including many of the stakeholders, submitted forty-one sets of written comments.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Forty-one percent are older than age 60, and approximately 57 percent are in the workforce.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Forty-one percent of the respondents in this sample had no high school diploma.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Of those, nearly half (forty-one) were on Arab-Israeli issues.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Forty-one classrooms participated, providing a total of 794 students in first, third, and fifth grades.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Forty-one questionnaires were collected and analyzed through the inductive analysis method to identify themes.

    Academic text (2015)
  • By the time the bidding ended, forty-one bids had been placed and eBay item number 5660982226 had sold for $504.

    Academic text (2006)

Synonyms

xli
vsforty-one
9.9

A Roman numeral for forty-one

is the word form rather than the numeral form

How Many

fifty
1.0
forty-one
6 1.0
forty
644 1.0
thirty
1.0
twenty
1.0
ten
311 1.0

Surface Forms

forty-one cardinal word
41 cardinal digit

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 simply joins forty and one, so it names the number 'four tens and one' and that is why it equals 41.