FORTY-SEVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forty-seven mean? 

• FORTY-SEVEN (adjective)
  The adjective FORTY-SEVEN has 1 sense:

1. being seven more than forty

  Familiarity information: FORTY-SEVEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORTY-SEVEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being seven more than forty

Synonyms:

47; forty-seven; xlvii

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

Forty-seven fields were sampled in the spring for STBA.

(New Test Can Determine Nitrogen Levels in Soil, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

It is estimated that not fewer than forty-seven persons must have been accommodated with dinner at one time, exclusive of the company in the passage and on the stairs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sir Oliver Buttesthorn, Sir Richard Causton, Sir Simon Burley, Black Simon, Johnston, a hundred and fifty archers, and forty-seven men-at-arms had fallen, while the pitiless hail of stones was already whizzing and piping once more about their ears, threatening every instant to further reduce their numbers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)