forty-seventh
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- adjective
- /ˈfɔrtiˈsɛvənθ/
- On his forty-seventh birthday, seven years before Vaughn Rhomer would sit in a New Orleans cafe and long for darkness, Jack Carmine awakened just after first light and looked at Linda Lobo.
- the forty-seventh birthday
Examples
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You are ranked 20,008 in the national pool, forty-seventh in your district.
Fiction book (1995) -
Marjorie died at home on January 16, 2005, three days after her forty-seventh birthday.
Blog text (11) -
Forty-seventh is my best local ranking ever, but in truth, I'd hoped for better.
Fiction book (1995) -
It was the forty-seventh day, and he had heard that another hunger striker had died and that his uncle in the hospital room had gone almost blind.
Fiction book (2000) -
The forty-seventh name in the book was Fabian Gerard, a theatrical agent whose office was located on Sunset Boulevard.
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My sister will celebrate her forty-seventh birthday next week.
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He finished in forty-seventh place out of over a hundred participants.
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This is the forty-seventh edition of the annual festival.
Synonyms
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Coming after the forty-sixth in a list or order
Surface Forms
Morphology
forty-seventh = forty-seven (transparent) = forty + seven + th
Formed by adding the standard ordinal suffix '-th' to the cardinal 'forty-seven'; the ordinal relation is directly predictable.
Etymology
The word forty-seventh is made from forty, which means 'four tens', and seventh, from seven with the ending that shows order or place. So it means the position number '47', after 'forty-sixth' and before 'forty-eighth'.