forty-first

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English

English ordinal numbers
 <  40th 41st 42nd  > 
    Cardinal : forty-one
    Ordinal : forty-first

Adjective

forty-first

  1. The ordinal form of the number forty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 41 of a sequence.
    The answer appears on the forty-first page of the book.
    She finished forty-first in the race.

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English ordinal numbers may function as either an adjective or as a noun, and almost never appear in the plural.

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Noun

forty-first (plural forty-firsts)

  1. One of forty-one equal parts of a whole.
    A forty-first of 820 is 20.

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