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

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eighty-fifth

  1. 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.

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

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eighty-fifth (plural eighty-fifths)

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

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