forty-five
see also: Forty-five
Numeral
  1. Cardinal number after forty-four and before forty-six.
Synonyms
  • Arabic numerals: 45
  • Roman numerals: XLV
Translations
  • French: quarante-cinq
  • German: fünfundvierzig
  • Italian: quarantacinque
  • Portuguese: quarenta e cinco
  • Russian: со́рок пять
  • Spanish: cuarenta y cinco

Forty-five
Proper noun
  1. (historical) The Jacobite rising of 1745.
    • 1893, Scottish Notes and Queries, p. 158:
      Kingshouse, in the Blackmount, and Finlarig Castle, at the west end of Loch Tay, were both garrisoned during the ’45.
    • 2001, Arthur L. Herman, The Scottish Enlightenment, Harper Perennial 2006, p. 142:
      In the sharpest sense, the Forty-five was not a war between Scots and Englishmen, but a civil war.
    • 2012, Andrew Lang, A Short History of Scotland:
      Space does not permit an account of the assimilation of Scotland to England in the years between the Forty-five and our own time […].



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