eighty-seventh

English

English ordinal numbers

<  86th	87th	88th  >
Cardinal : eighty-seven     Ordinal : eighty-seventh

Adjective

eighty-seventh

1. The ordinal form of the number eighty-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 87 of a sequence.

   The answer appears on the eighty-seventh page of the book.

   She finished eighty-seventh 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

• 87th, 87^th

Translations

ordinal form of eighty-seven

• Afrikaans: sewe-en-tagtigste (af)
• Catalan: vuitanta-setè (ca)
• Esperanto: okdek-sepa
• Finnish: kahdeksaskymmenesseitsemäs
• Malayalam: എൺപത്തേഴാം (eṇpattēḻāṁ), എൺപത്തിയേഴാം (eṇpattiyēḻāṁ)

Noun

eighty-seventh (plural eighty-sevenths)

1. One of eighty-seven equal parts of a whole.

   An eighty-seventh of 1740 is 20.

Anagrams

• seventy-eighth