forty-seventh

forty-seventh

1. 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.

   She finished forty-seventh in the race.

English ordinal numbers may function as either an adjective or as a noun, and almost never appear in the plural.

• 47th, 47^th

forty-seventh (plural forty-sevenths)

1. One of forty-seven equal parts of a whole.

   A forty-seventh of 940 is 20.