forty-seventh

American  

[fawr-tee-sev-uhnth] / ˈfɔr tiˈsɛv ənθ /

adjective

1. next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.

2. being one of 47 equal parts.

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noun

1. a forty-seventh part, especially of one (1/47).

2. the forty-seventh member of a series.

Example Sentences

And that makes facing his and America’s past so painful and problematic for the man who will be this country’s forty-seventh president.

From Salon

How he died, months before his forty-seventh rotation around the sun.

From Scientific American

Compared with my own lockstep march toward success, the direct arrow shot of my trajectory from Princeton to Harvard to my desk on the forty-seventh floor, Barack’s path was an improvisational zigzag through disparate worlds.

From Literature

For her forty-seventh birthday, her husband, who is also named George, surprised her with a mystery road trip.

From The New Yorker

Coming into the French Open, she was ranked forty-seventh in the world.

From The New Yorker