ninety-seventh

English

**English ordinal numbers**
< 96th	97th	98th >
Cardinal : ninety-seven Ordinal : ninety-seventh

Adjective

ninety-seventh

The ordinal form of the number ninety-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 97 of a sequence.
The answer appears on the ninety-seventh page of the book.

She finished ninety-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

97th, 97^th

Translations

ordinal form of ninety-seven

Esperanto: naŭdek-sepa

Finnish: yhdeksäskymmenesseitsemäs

Noun

ninety-seventh (plural ninety-sevenths)

One of ninety-seven equal parts of a whole.
A ninety-seventh of 1940 is 20.

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