eighty-fifth

English

**English ordinal numbers**
< 84th	85th	86th >
Cardinal : eighty-five Ordinal : eighty-fifth

Adjective

eighty-fifth

The ordinal form of the number eighty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 85 of a sequence.
The answer appears on the eighty-fifth page of the book.

She finished eighty-fifth 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.

Abbreviations

85th, 85^th

Translations

ordinal form of eighty-five

Esperanto: okdek-kvina

Finnish: kahdeksaskymmenesviides

Noun

eighty-fifth (plural eighty-fifths)

One of eighty-five equal parts of a whole.
An eighty-fifth of 1700 is 20.

Anagrams

fifty-eighth

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