sixty-fifth

sixty-fifth

1. The ordinal form of the number sixty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 65 of a sequence.

   The answer appears on the sixty-fifth page of the book.

   She finished sixty-fifth in the race.

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

• 65th, 65^th

sixty-fifth (plural sixty-fifths)

1. One of sixty-five equal parts of a whole.

   A sixty-fifth of 1300 is 20.

• fifty-sixth