Definition of "forty-seven" []

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

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Use "forty-seven" in a sentence

"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."

Words like "forty-seven"

arabic numerals cardinal eighty-eight eighty-two

fifty-eight fifty-seven forty-one forty-six

ninety-three

Roman numerals

seventy-eight seventy-seven

sixty-seven sixty-three twenty-eight xlvii