forty-two
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cuarenta y dos
- Six sevens are forty-two.
- forty-two percent
- forty-two years
- forty-two provinces
Examples
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When using all three approaches, a maximum of forty-two of the ninety-seven serials were potentially identified as new works.
Academic text (2013) -
Currently, there are forty-two PK-12 schools involved in the Network of Partner Schools.
Academic text (2008) -
We start the draw drum, release all forty-two numbers.
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How was he to know that they were speaking of forty-two tons of nuclear waste?
Fiction book (1994) -
The Assembly on 24 February 1933 condemned Japanese aggression by a vote of forty-two to one.
Academic text (1995) -
In 1980, the pay of corporate chief executives was forty-two times the salary of the average factory worker.
Academic text (2002) -
By 2004, China's urban population accounted for nearly forty-two percent of its total population.
Academic text (2006) -
Using these criteria, a total of forty-two merits decisions by the Federal Circuit were identified in the dataset.
Academic text (2017) -
Forty-two pence.
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The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is forty-two.
Synonyms
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The Roman numeral for 42
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Forty-two comes from two number parts: forty, which means 'four tens', and two, which means '2'. So forty-two simply means 'forty plus two', the number 42, and a helpful way to remember it is the famous book that calls 42 'the answer'.