forty-seven

[ fawr-tee-sev-uhn ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 40 plus 7.
2. a symbol for this number, as 47 or XLVII.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 47 in number.

Example Sentences

Then, at six minutes and forty-seven seconds of the third period, that thing happened for which the Detroit hockey fans wait.

From The Daily Beast

On the first day alone at least forty-seven persons were injured and sixty to seventy cars stoned.

From The Daily Beast

Foreshadowing her intentions, the forty-seven-year-old gave the boy a signed first edition of the titillating tale.

From The Daily Beast

In November 1990, forty-seven women drove in the Kingdom and were summarily arrested.

From The Daily Beast

Pitt: How many player evaluations did I ask you for?Hill: ThreePitt: How many did you do?Hill: Forty-seven.

From The Daily Beast

The two armies were very nearly equal in numbers, the French having forty-seven thousand men and the English forty-four thousand.

From Project Gutenberg

After much animated debate, they divided; and the bill was lost by forty-eight votes to forty-seven.

From Project Gutenberg

He estimates the loss of the guerrillas as one hundred and fifty killed, three hundred wounded and forty-seven prisoners.

From Project Gutenberg

In a preface of forty-seven pages the fears of the conservative old Abb are well expressed.

From Project Gutenberg

The troops had been fighting, marching, or building breastworks for forty-seven (p. 369) days, without interruption.

From Project Gutenberg