forty-seven
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 7.
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a symbol for this number, as 47 or XLVII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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He died in a helicopter crash in 1977, at the age of forty-seven.
From Literature
In the experiment, forty-seven healthy adults participated in a double-blind randomized crossover trial.
From Science Daily
“So six bolts of silk at twice the price, plus the tariff, but minus my bargain to you as a Zoroastrian would be one hundred forty-seven drachms.”
From Literature
He delivered his lines and was gone forty-seven seconds after he’d entered the room.
From Literature
“I came to live in Seattle in 1990, when I was forty-seven. It was late — very late — in the day for a new start,” he writes about halfway through the book.
From Seattle Times
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