47th
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- adjective
- We don't come to 47th Street to chitchat.
- the 47th session
Examples
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The 47th floor of the building offered breathtaking views of the city skyline.
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Jamie, when Romney left Massachusetts, he left it as the 47th ranked state in job creation.
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It's a club on 47th Street.
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- all the way up on East 47th Street.
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47th Street, under the El.
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It's on 47th Street, 2 blocks from the Grace Point Tower where Emily worked.
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An Enemy of the People plays at The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th Street through November 18, 2012.
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47th and Fifth.
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Last Friday marked the 47th anniversary of Earth Day, which began in 1970.
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They celebrated Joe's 47th birthday with a big party at his house.
Synonyms
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In the position number forty-seven in a list or order
Surface Forms
Morphology
47th = 47 (transparent) = 47 + th
The suffix '-th' is a standard ordinal marker in English, making the ordinal form clear from the cardinal number.
Etymology
47Th is the number 47 plus the ending -th, the same idea you see in words like first and second, and it shows 'position' or 'order' rather than 'how many'. So, 47th means 'the one after the forty-sixth', which is why we use it for floors, places, and anniversaries.