forty-seventh
Americanadjective
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next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
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being one of 47 equal parts.
noun
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a forty-seventh part, especially of one (1/47).
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the forty-seventh member of a series.
Example Sentences
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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 ● Jan. 7, 2025
On Saturday, at the hundred and forty-seventh Belmont Stakes, American Pharoah will be the thirteenth horse to try to break the Triple Crown drought that has plagued horse racing for thirty-seven years.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 5, 2015
By 2009, the country had climbed from a hundred and forty-seventh to eleventh place in the World Bank’s “ease of doing business” index.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 28, 2014
Worth about $20,000 apiece, give or take, about one forty-seventh of what one goes for on the open market today.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2011
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 "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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