sixty-sixth

English

English ordinal numbers

<  65th	66th	67th  >
Cardinal : sixty-six     Ordinal : sixty-sixth

Adjective

sixty-sixth

1. The ordinal form of the number sixty-six, describing a person or thing in position number 66 of a sequence.

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

   She finished sixty-sixth in the race.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Though in his sixty-sixth year, I have never heard him express any dissatisfaction at the occasional hardships which we have had to encounter.

Usage notes

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

Abbreviations

• 66th, 66^th

Translations

ordinal form of sixty-six

• Afrikaans: ses-en-sestigste (af)
• Catalan: seixanta-sisè (ca)
• Esperanto: sesdek-sesa
• Finnish: kuudeskymmeneskuudes
• French: soixante-sixième
• Hungarian: hatvanhatodik (hu)
• Malayalam: അറുപത്താറാം (aṟupattāṟāṁ)
• Polish: sześćdziesiąty szósty
• Ukrainian: шістдеся́т шо́стий (šistdesját šóstyj)

Noun

sixty-sixth (plural sixty-sixths)

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

   A sixty-sixth of 1320 is 20.