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forties en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) From or evoking the 41st through 50th years of a century (chiefly the 1940s).
   • Like any big modern city, Scott's Los Angeles of 2019 is saturated with technologies; in fact, it is most striking for its layering of technologies, styles, lifestyles and ethnicities, which range from oriental peasant altars and cookfires through forties hats and building facades to off-world colonies and androids. 1991, Judith B. Kerman, “Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia”, in Judith B. Kerman, editor, Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 2nd edition, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 16:
   • Two forties aircraft sat forgotten in the hangar until they were rediscovered by two trespassing teens.

Forms

forties en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (form-of, plural) plural of forty
   form of forty
2. (plural, plural-only) The fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.
   • My ma was born in the forties and my pa was born in the seventies.
3. (plural, plural-only) The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49.
   • They're both in their forties.
   • Albrecht Lein reports that the core of the Braunschweig Antifa was made up of KPD and SPD members in their forties and fifties who had avoided the front, though Catholic workers’ organizations and other forces were also involved. 2017 May 14, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
4. (plural, plural-only, qualifier:rates) The range between 40 and 49.
   • What to wear when the weather is in the forties really depends on whether you're talking Fahrenheit or Celsius.

Forms

Deriveds

roaring forties · Hungry Forties

Relateds

1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s · aughts · zeros · zeroes · 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s · noughties · 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s · Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties · tens · 2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s · 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s · 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s · teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties · 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s · '00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s · oughts · oneties · 00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's · quadragenarian

Synonyms

'40s · 40s

Translations (32)

fi neljäkymmentäluku (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · cmn 40年代 (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · ja 40年代 (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · hu negyvenes évek (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · it anni quaranta (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · sv fyrtiotal (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · pl lata 40. (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · it quarantenne (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · ru сороковы́е (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · ka ორმოციანები (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · ko 40년대 (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · fi nelikymmenluku (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · sv fyrtiotalet (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · cmn 四十年代 (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · fr années quarante (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · es años cuarenta (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · nl jaren veertig (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · cy pedwardegau (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · cy deugeiniau (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · nl jaren 40 (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · pl lata czterdzieste (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · es década de 1940 (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · ka ორმოციანი წლები (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · de vierziger Jahre (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · ka 40-იანი წლები (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · fr années 40 (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · ja 四十年代 (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · ko 사십년대 (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · it anta (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · de Vierziger (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · ka 40-იანები (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.) · nl jaren 1940 (the fifth decade of a century: the 1840s, 1940s, 2040s, etc.)