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

“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

The watch on the wrist of the first soldier says forty-seven minutes after eight.

From Literature

One hundred and forty-seven Republicans voted to reject legitimate electoral votes, only hours after Trump's followers had overrun the Capitol and ransacked it.

From Salon