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FORTY-SEVENTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does forty-seventh mean?
• FORTY-SEVENTH (adjective)
The adjective FORTY-SEVENTH has 1 sense:
1. the ordinal number of forty-seven in counting order
Familiarity information: FORTY-SEVENTH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ordinal number of forty-seven in counting order
Synonyms:
47th; forty-seventh
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
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