forty-seventh

[ fawr-tee-sev-uhnth ]

adjective

1. next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
2. being one of 47 equal parts.

noun

1. a forty-seventh part, especially of one (1/47).
2. the forty-seventh member of a series.

Example Sentences

On the 23rd of January, Mr. Pitt expired, in the forty-seventh year of his age.

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Four hundred additional marines and the forty-seventh regiment were promptly landed.

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The forty-sixth floor of the Lasser Building had no windows on this side, but there were plenty on the forty-seventh.

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Almost at the same moment, the crowd on Forty-seventh Street thrilled in admiration of a rescue feat even more perilous.

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He died at Arras on the 3rd of December 1592, in the forty-seventh year of his age.

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