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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Late Latin
Origin: ordinalis, from Latin ordo; ORDER1

ordinal number

 noun
     
Related topics: Numbers
or‧di‧nal number also ordinal [countable]
HMN one of the numbers such as first, second, third etc which show the order of things
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