40

Questions about 40

What does 40 mean?

40 means "the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for 40?

Close synonyms include forty, XL, forty, xl, twoscore. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is 40 a common word?

40 is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.