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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number forty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 45 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of forty-five equal parts of a whole.

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  • adjective the ordinal number of forty-five in counting order

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Examples

  • I'm in my forty-fifth year and, to be honest, I've never been a glamorous woman.

    Mercury Unbound - 2 J. Mykell Collinz 2011

  • Mubarak's announcement only adds more pressure to the opening night of Spider-Man, which was just postponed for the forty-fifth time, following technical problems that caused some of the actors' heads to accidentally explode onto the preview audience.

    Spencer Green: Mubarak to Resign When Spider-Man Musical Officially Premieres Spencer Green 2011

  • I'm in my forty-fifth year and, to be honest, I've never been a glamorous woman.

    Mercury Unbound - 2 J. Mykell Collinz 2011

  • My friend, Zelda, was about to have her forty-fifth birthday party.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010

  • My friend, Zelda, was about to have her forty-fifth birthday party.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010

  • "People will call me on the forty-fifth day and say, 'I'm sending the check right now please don't charge the late fee!'" she says.

    Business Owners Find Creative Ways to Collect the Bills 2010

  • My friend, Zelda, was about to have her forty-fifth birthday party.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010

  • So he abandoned the idea of becoming consul, and the date of his triumphal entry into the city was fixed, at his request, to coincide with his forty-fifth birthday, at the end of September.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Later, Cox, Herren, and I adjourn to his well-appointed Gold Coast apartment, which stands sentry over Lake Michigan, on the forty-fifth floor of a high-rise.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • Two days after the funeral, Louisa and her father quietly celebrated their forty-fifth and seventy-eighth birthdays.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

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