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Definition of: forty
(fôr′tē) adjective
Consisting of ten more than thirty, or of four times ten.
—noun plural ·ties
1. The sum of ten and thirty; four times ten: a cardinal number.
2. Any of the symbols (40, xl, XL) representing this number.
3. U.S. Forty acres, or one-sixteenth of a section of land. [OE fēowertig]
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