Wiktionary
n. (context fractional English) One of forty-seven equal parts of a whole. num. (context ordinal English) The ordinal form of the number forty-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 47 of a sequence.
WordNet
adj. the ordinal number of forty-seven in counting order [syn: 47th]
Usage examples of "forty-seventh".
Gingham Shop over in Forty-seventh Street, and how Charley is not going so good the last time I am in there, and here is maybe a chance for me to steer a little trade his way, because, after all, guys with two yards in their pocket are by no means common nowadays.
He was living in a fleabag on Forty-seventh when he ran into Jocko in the bar that night.
Hitler Brothers were getting ready to carve him up there in that deserted laundrymat on East Forty-seventh.
Sir Tristram will not live long, when you will marry again, and you will die from the effects of childbirth in your forty-seventh year.
Festival of the Fruitful Earth, Lannon Hycanus the forty-seventh Gry-Lion of Opet went in procession to the temple of Astarte to take the oracle.
He began his career in Africa under Colonel Combes in the forty-seventh of the line.
I myself saw the car standing before another gambling den on Forty-seventh Street about the same time.
He and his slender wife and a squalling infant lived in a one-bedroom garden apartment just south of Forty-seventh Avenue.
He finally managed to explain what he meant by kissing her in the taxicab, from Forty-seventh Street to Fifty-first, through two stop lights.