Definitions
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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective the ordinal number of forty-seven in counting order
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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On the console it said it was the forty-seventh day of Haal, the moons of abundant rain.
Massage 2010
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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
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Just two more years of patience, Mr. Benefactor, then I shall have finished my forty-seventh opera!
Archive 2008-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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
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