forty-fifth
- adjective
- /ˈfɔrtiˌfɪfθ/
- He had been spending a lot of time watching the Three Card Monte players who lined up on Broadway between Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Streets, listening to their verbal patter and trying to learn their tricks.
- the forty-fifth anniversary
- the forty-fifth birthday
Examples
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" We need to have candid conversations with one another," Secretary Riley agreed a year later on the forty-fifth anniversary of the Brown decision.
Academic text (2004) -
The cost of interest on that debt will more than double between 2013 and 2017, which means that by the time the forty-fifth President of the United States is sworn in, our debt service costs alone will exceed $550 billion per year.
Blog text (12) -
The night he celebrated his forty-fifth birthday was on a Sunday, since Sunday was the only day the house was closed.
Fiction book (2001) -
Harrison was the project's forty-fifth patient in the fourteen months since it had been established, but the manner of his death made him the most interesting.
Fiction book (1992) -
"It's my forty-fifth anniversary!" he said, waving me over. "I've been an officer in the party for forty-five years."
Fiction book (1995) -
The conference usually schedules one big speaker, and this year, on the forty-fifth anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, the speaker will be a guy who actually served on President Kennedy's security detail.
Blog text (12) -
At its forty-fifth session in 1993, the commission received the report of a working group containing the draft statute, and without formally adopting the text, referred it to the General Assembly (Akhavan 1995, Bassiouni 1995).
Academic text (1999) -
This year marks the forty-fifth anniversary of our friendship.
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Her forty-fifth birthday celebration was unforgettable.
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The team's forty-fifth match of the season is scheduled for next week.
Synonyms
Number forty-five in a series
Surface Forms
Morphology
forty-fifth = forty-five (semi-transparent) = forty + five + th
Structure is regular (ordinal formed from the cardinal), but the spelling/phonological change in 'five' → 'fifth' introduces a small irregularity that may confuse some learners.
Etymology
Forty-fifth is made by joining forty ('40') and fifth (from five, '5') to show a place in an order, so forty-fifth means being in the 45th position in a line or list.