forty-four
14
1.0
- numeral
- /ˈfɔrtiˌfɔr/
:
cuarenta y cuatro
- A few church members, at least forty-four, probably lived as part of an extended family network.
- forty-four percent
- forty-four years
- forty-four miles
Examples
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Between the ages of eighteen and forty-four, she produced sixteen children, thirteen of whom survived to adulthood.
Academic text (2011) -
Our count, by the way, had reached forty-four, with flounder slightly ahead of herring in number.
Fiction book (1996) -
As a result, welfare rolls today are down over forty-four percent in the United States.
Academic text (1999) -
The cost per year of extending school lunch programs to the forty-four poorest nations is $6 billion.
Academic text (2003) -
The outside temperature was forty-four below, and school would be canceled if that temperature persisted through the night.
Fiction book (2002) -
By 1930, northern urban black women under the age of forty-four were as literate as northern white women.
Academic text (1994) -
More than one hundred abortion-related bills have been introduced in forty-four legislatures in 1990.
Academic text (1990) -
The NDP's victory broke forty-four years of uninterrupted conservative rule in Alberta.
Academic text (2017) -
A brief census of a mangrove forest in Costa Rica turned up forty-four species of breeding land birds.
Academic text (1990) -
The team won forty-four games this season, setting a new franchise record.
Synonyms
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8.8
A Roman numeral for forty-four
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Morphology
Etymology
Forty-four is simply forty + four: the -ty in forty means 'times ten', so forty is 'four times ten'. Adding four makes 'four more', so forty-four is 'forty' plus four more.