forty-five

/ˌfɔɹtiˈfaɪv/

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Collocations

ADJ.

last, late, old, own, sharpest

VERB + FORTY-FIVE

am, arrived, brandished, composed, comprises, end, sense, sentence

FORTY-FIVE + NOUN

afternoon, cashier, greeks, hours, letters, minutes, percent, students

PREP.

about, after, after, between, in, until, with

num

Cardinal number after forty-four and before forty-six.

noun

A .45-caliber firearm.

The robber brandished a forty-five at the cashier to make her empty the till for him.

The phoenix he helped create Out of control boy without a dad Shot the gun that startled my life While I drove him with a forty-five

name

The Jacobite rising of 1745.

Kingshouse, in the Blackmount, and Finlarig Castle, at the west end of Loch Tay, were both garrisoned during the ’45.

In the sharpest sense, the Forty-five was not a war between Scots and Englishmen, but a civil war.

adjective — being five more than forty

The robber brandished a forty-five at the cashier to make her empty the till for him.

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The phoenix he helped create Out of control boy without a dad Shot the gun that startled my life While I drove him with a forty-five

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Kingshouse, in the Blackmount, and Finlarig Castle, at the west end of Loch Tay, were both garrisoned during the ’45.

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In the sharpest sense, the Forty-five was not a war between Scots and Englishmen, but a civil war.

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Space does not permit an account of the assimilation of Scotland to England in the years between the Forty-five and our own time […].

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Our class has forty-five students.

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In some senses, forty-five is marked as historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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