forty-five

Speech parts

1. forty-five - Noun

2. forty-five - Adjective Satellite

3. Forty-five - Proper noun

Meaning

being five more than forty

a .45-caliber pistol

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We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy! Betty Friedan

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive. David Gemmell

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. F. Scott Fitzgerald

All those traitors who were morally against fascism during the shameful forty-five days following July 25 must inexorably be wiped out. Alessandro Pavolini

I, at any rate, acknowledge only one master, not forty-five million two-legged sheep, or two thousand million, but simply and absolutely the spirit. Olaf Stapledon

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight? Melanie Griffith

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