What is another word for forties?

Pronunciation: [fˈɔːtɪz] (IPA)

The word "forties" is typically used to refer to the decade of the 1940s, but it can also refer to a person's age range when they are in their forties. There are a few synonyms that can be used in place of "forties," such as the period between 40 to 49 years old can be referred to as midlife. The term middle age is also an appropriate synonym for the 40s which is often considered as a period of significant change, both positive and negative. Another synonym for "forties" can be maturity, as this is the time when most people gain a greater sense of wisdom and experience.

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  • Equivalence

    • Noun, plural
      1940s.
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  • Other Related

    • Noun, plural
      40s.

What are the hypernyms for Forties?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    decade, 1940s, period, 1940s era, decade of the 20th century.

What are the hyponyms for Forties?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the holonyms for Forties?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.

Usage examples for Forties

All the wildest phases of nihilist opinion in the sixties were already raging in Russia in the forties.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Later on, however, Whitley Stokes became the Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine at Trinity College, a chair which he held until succeeded in the early forties of the nineteenth century by his son, William, the subject of this sketch.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
It was in one of the women's university clubs in the forties and to her uninitiated eye the light fell on a confusing display of evening dress and worldly-wise faces full of self-containment.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck

Famous quotes with Forties

  • I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
    Augusten Burroughs
  • I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
    Joan Cusack
  • Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
    Rebecca H. Davis
  • It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
    Audre Lorde

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