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42nd

42nd is the abbreviation of forty-second.

Meaning of forty-second

Adjective

forty-second

  1. The ordinal form of the number forty-two, describing a person or thing in position number 42 of a sequence.
    • The answer appears on the forty-second page of the book.
  2. Lasting forty seconds.
    Synonyms:
    42nd

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Questions about 42nd

What is 42nd the abbreviation of?
42nd is the abbreviation of forty-second.

Words near 42nd in the dictionary

  1. 42
  2. 42-gon
  3. 42-gons
  4. 420
  5. 420s
  6. 42nd
  7. 437737
  8. 43rd
  9. 440
  10. 440-yard dash
  11. 440-yard dashes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 42nd (page history and authors); forty-second (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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