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Added 10 October 2026

forty-seventh

/ˌfɔːti ˈsɛvənθ/ adjective

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The ordinal form of the number forty-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 47 of a sequence.
The answer appears on the forty-seventh page of the book.

noun

One of forty-seven equal parts of a whole.
A forty-seventh of 940 is 20.

Origin

From forty-seven + -th (ordinal suffix).

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