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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number forty-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 47 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of forty-seven equal parts of a whole.

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  • adjective the ordinal number of forty-seven in counting order

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Examples

  • Today is the forty-seventh anniversary of Independence in Trinidad and Tobago, but some bloggers wonder whether citizens of the twin island republic truly understand what sovereignty is all about …

    Global Voices in English » Trinidad & Tobago: Are We Really Independent? 2009

  • … No one leader can bring an end to all of those ills, but I can promise you this: these women too will have an advocate and a defender in the forty-seventh vice president of the United States.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • … No one leader can bring an end to all of those ills, but I can promise you this: these women too will have an advocate and a defender in the forty-seventh vice president of the United States.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • On the console it said it was the forty-seventh day of Haal, the moons of abundant rain.

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  • … No one leader can bring an end to all of those ills, but I can promise you this: these women too will have an advocate and a defender in the forty-seventh vice president of the United States.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • Just two more years of patience, Mr. Benefactor, then I shall have finished my forty-seventh opera!

    Archive 2008-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • That is why they check themselves into mental hospitals or throw themselves off the forty-seventh floor of the Time-Life Building.

    In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010

  • I could blame my parents, sixty-somethings, who on the afternoon of the forty-seventh anniversary of their love-at-first-sight ignited marriage were found rolling around on a couch, giggling and making out.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Billy Mernit, Part 1 2008

  • Just two more years of patience, Mr. Benefactor, then I shall have finished my forty-seventh opera!

    You must eat a beefsteak Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • … No one leader can bring an end to all of those ills, but I can promise you this: these women too will have an advocate and a defender in the forty-seventh vice president of the United States.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

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