forty-seven

forty-seven
/fawr"tee sev"euhn/, n.
1. a cardinal number, 40 plus 7.
2. a symbol for this number, as 47 or XLVII.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
adj.
4. amounting to 47 in number.

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