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

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.

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

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You’re back where you started, in the city where you were born, only now you go to work on the forty-seventh floor in a downtown building with a wide plaza and a sculpture out front.

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

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

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