forty-first adjective 1noun 1forms 1 adjective1 •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. noun1 •One of forty-one equal parts of a whole.A forty-first of 820 is 20. formsforty-firsts