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  • noun plural See forty.

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  • noun Plural form of forty.
  • noun The decade of the 1840s, 1940s, etc.
  • noun The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49.

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  • noun the decade from 1940 to 1949
  • noun the time of life between 40 and 50

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