forty-seventh

forty-seventh

English

English ordinal numbers

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Cardinal : forty-seven     Ordinal : forty-seventh

Adjective

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.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• 47th, 47^th

Translations

47th

Catalan: quaranta-setè (ca) Crimean Tatar: qırq yedinci Esperanto: kvardek-sepa Finnish: neljäskymmenesseitsemäs French: quarante-septième German: siebenundvierzigste Hungarian: negyvenhetedik (hu) Italian: quarantasettesimo Malayalam: നാല്പത്തേഴാം (nālpattēḻāṃ), നാല്പത്തിയേഴാം (nālpattiyēḻāṃ) Portuguese: quadragésimo sétimo Spanish: cuadragésimo séptimo Turkish: kırk yedinci

Noun

forty-seventh (plural forty-sevenths)

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

   A forty-seventh of 940 is 20.

Translations

1/47

Catalan: quaranta-setè (ca) Finnish: neljäskymmenesseitsemäsosa French: quarante-septième German: siebenundvierzigste Hungarian: negyvenheted Italian: quarantasettesimo Portuguese: quarenta e sete avos Spanish: cuadragésimo séptimo