forty-seventh [fawr-tee-sev-uh nth] Examples adjective
- next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- being one of 47 equal parts.
noun
- a forty-seventh part, especially of one (1/47).
- the forty-seventh member of a series.
Examples from the Web for forty-seventh Historical Examples of forty-seventh
He died at Rome in the year 1758, in the forty-seventh year of his age.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745
Mrs. Thomson
Senator Bruce was not returned to the Forty-seventh Congress.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922
Various
Thus died, in his forty-seventh year, “The Bravest of the Brave.”
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8
Various
How should he use his future life,—he who as yet had not passed his forty-seventh year?
Anthony Trollope
Are you going through that forty-seventh problem this morning, sir?
George Manville Fenn