Synonyms for forties
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1. fortiesnoun

   Synonyms:
   40s, 1940s

2. fortiesnoun

   The decade of the 1840s, 1940s, etc.

   Synonyms:
   1940s, 40s

3. fortiesnoun

   The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49.

   They're both in their forties.

   Synonyms:
   40s, 1940s

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1. forties, mid-fortiesnoun

   the time of life between 40 and 50

   Synonyms:
   mid-forties

2. forties, 1940snoun

   the decade from 1940 to 1949

   Synonyms:
   mid-forties

Matched Categories

1. • Decade
   • Time Of Life

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1. List of paraphrases for "forties":

   1940s, 40s

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1. Proverb:

   When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.

2. Keith Richards:

   We could see a bounce on oil, it could go from the fifties back to $60 or something in the short term, but generally speaking I think oil is heading down to the forties again, i can't be bullish on commodities.

3. Daniel Crane:

   In the forties and fifties you had these sort of mom-and-pop car dealers complaining that they were being taken advantage of by the' Big Three' [ Detroit automakers ], and so this led to this series of dealer protection laws.

4. Keith Richards:

   We could se a bounce on oil, it could go from the fifties back to $60 or something in the short term, but generally speaking I think oil is heading down to the forties again, i can't be bullish on commodities.

5. Euripides:

   It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.