Definition of "forty-seven" []

• The cardinal number immediately following forty-six and preceding forty-eight. (noun)

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• "Bill Perry believed that the U.S. force level in Japan at that time, some forty-seven thousand troops, was about right."
• "Once in forty-seven years someone actually holds the guy to account, and he fails miserably."
• "This was Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, after all, and it seemed the least the college to do after erecting fraternity houses on land where forty-seven thousand men bled out."