Usually means: Age range from forty to forty-nine.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word FORTIES:

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  1. forties: Merriam-Webster
  2. forties: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forties, the forties: Collins English Dictionary
  4. forties: Vocabulary.com
  5. Forties, forties: Wordnik
  6. forties, the forties: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Forties, forties: Wiktionary
  8. Forties, forties: Dictionary.com
  9. forties: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Forties: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Forties: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. forties: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. forties: Rhymezone
  14. Forties: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. forties: FreeDictionary.org
  16. forties: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Forties, The Forties: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Forties, forties: Encyclopedia

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  1. The Forties, forties: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Forties, Forties: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. forties: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See forty as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Forties)

noun:  The decade of the 1840s, 1940s, etc.
noun:  The decade of one's life from age 40 through age 49.
noun:  (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 40 and 49.
adjective:  From or evoking the 41st through 50th years of a century (chiefly the 1940s).
noun:  A sea area, in the northern part of the North Sea, where the depth of water is consistently forty fathoms

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