forty-seven

[ fawr-tee-sev-uh n ]

/ ˈfɔr tiˈsɛv ən /

a cardinal number, 40 plus 7.

a symbol for this number, as 47 or XLVII.

a set of this many persons or things.

amounting to 47 in number.

Words nearby forty-seven

Then, at six minutes and forty-seven seconds of the third period, that thing happened for which the Detroit hockey fans wait.

Gordie Howe Hockey’s Greatest War Horse |W.C. Heinz |May 31, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
On the first day alone at least forty-seven persons were injured and sixty to seventy cars stoned.

How We Built the Ghettos |Jamelle Bouie |March 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In November 1990, forty-seven women drove in the Kingdom and were summarily arrested.

Prince Naif’s War On Saudi Liberals And How Obama Is Abetting The Crackdown |David Keyes |November 11, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Pitt: How many player evaluations did I ask you for?Hill: ThreePitt: How many did you do?Hill: Forty-seven.

Good Movie, Bad Baseball |Allen Barra |September 29, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

Forty-seven of 50 Senate Democrats and 197 of 210 House Democrats backed NCLB; 94 percent in both cases.

The GOP’s One-Sided War on Dems |Michael Tomasky |September 9, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Yet, on the voyage of seven weeks we buried forty-seven, or nearly one every day.

The Orange Girl |Walter Besant
That jail was standing when I come to Arkansas forty-seven years ago.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States |Work Projects Administration
He got enough in half a day to keep him in advice for forty-seven years.

The Tent Dwellers |Albert Bigelow Paine
The estate, sir, is now approximately valued at forty-seven thousand per annum.

The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. |Various
The galley-slaves who were captured amounted in number to forty-seven.

Mr. Midshipman Easy |Captain Frederick Marryat