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Wiktionary
- n. ordinal The ordinal form of number forty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 45 of a sequence.
- n. fractional One of forty-five equal parts of a whole.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. the ordinal number of forty-five in counting order
Examples
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Spencer Green: Mubarak to Resign When Spider-Man Musical Officially Premieres
“I'm in my forty-fifth year and, to be honest, I've never been a glamorous woman.”
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: Business Owners Find Creative Ways to Collect the Bills
“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.”
“Two days after the funeral, Louisa and her father quietly celebrated their forty-fifth and seventy-eighth birthdays.”
“My friend, Zelda, was about to have her forty-fifth birthday party.”
“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.”
“On my forty-fifth birthday, I interviewed a woman named Muriel Gardiner about her experiences trying to rescue people from the Nazis.”
“On the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the cities of Juda round about:”
Intelligently-Designed Narratives: Mythicism as History-Stopper
“I saw her eyes travel round from one impossible carving to the next, while she gulped and went crimson and pale by turns, not knowing whether to scream or giggle, so I stepped up behind her and said quietly that the forty-fifth position was much admired by the discriminating.”
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