Associations to the word «Fortieth»

Wiktionary

FORTIETH, adjective. The ordinal form of the number forty.
FORTIETH, noun. The person or thing in the fortieth position.
FORTIETH, noun. One of forty equal parts of a whole.

Dictionary definition

FORTIETH, noun. Position 40 in a countable series of things.
FORTIETH, adjective. The ordinal number of forty in counting order.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne